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The COVID-driven rush of New Yorkers into Florida has turned into a stampede — with no end in sight. A record-breaking number of Empire State residents switched their driver’s licenses to the Sunshine State version last month, according to a Post analysis of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles data. A total of 5,838 New Yorkers made the switch in August — the highest recorded number for a single month in history, the numbers show. Year to date, 41,885 New Yorkers have handed over their licenses after moving south, a torrid pace that’s pointing to a new annual...

Just-released numbers show that 32.5 million travelers poured into Florida in July, August and September, exceeding the number of visitors during the same period in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.It was the second consecutive quarter of growth in domestic visitors, with 31.2 million Americans flocking to the Sunshine State in the third quarter of the year, according to Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism marketing corporation.That number was up from pre-pandemic numbers by almost 7 percent.Meanwhile, across the country the total number of domestic travel trips was expected to reach just 85 percent of the 2019 level, according to the...