Posted on 12/31/2021 3:51:03 PM PST by House Atreides
Florida continued its record-shattering week for COVID-19 infections, reporting nearly 76,000 new daily cases on Friday as testing and hospitalizations in the state also continued to increase.
The 75,962 new cases reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once again set a daily record for Florida and brought the state's total to 4,165,962 since the pandemic began in March of 2020.
Thanks mostly to the fast-spreading omicron variant and an increase in testing, Florida has set records all week for daily cases, with 58,013 reported Thursday, 52,995 reported Wednesday, 33,567 on Tuesday and 29,129 on Monday.
Covid hospitalizations in the state increased by 484 on Friday, reaching 4,485, according to the Florida Hospital Association. That total is nowhere near the peak of more than 17,100 hospitalizations during the summer delta wave.
Hospitalizations in the state have increased over 144% in the past week, though more than 25% of adult ICU beds remain available.
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As many expected, based upon the experience in South Africa, this Omicron surge is not being accompanied by a proportionate surge in hospitalizations and deaths. So that is good news.
Yes, kinda is.
I’m surprised. Weren’t we told DeSantis killed everyone in the state with Covid last summer.
At this rate, Florida should have herd immunity by Monday afternoon.
The ultimate goal will be mail in balloting in November.
I’ll bet the Biden administration has been flying covid positive illegals to Florida for weeks now, hoping to cause this.
Yes. This is exactly what these liberal scum would. Their evil is monumental.
AOC’s fault.
She brought NYC Covid down with her.
Such a gleeful headline! Record-Shattering Week!
Okay. We know. You hate DeSantis because he's not a Democrat. We get it. Now get back to work. The fingerpaints are over there.
CDC’s head Wolensky has admitted the tests are producing a significant amount of false positives. The CDC head.
NY (~500k)far exceeding Florida (~258k)
Any chance that the media will mention that 30% of all new USA cases are in NYC right now?
Didn’t think so.
But let’s write an article about florida having amazing new cases even though most every state is having a huge case spike right now
Si I wonder why they don’t separate out the hospitalizations and deaths due to the Covid Delta variant and those due to Omicron?
More tests more cases.....deaths yesterday 5..all the democrat snowbirds are flooding the test sites????
We don’t seem to be getting the same information when they gleefully told the vaccination status of the infected. And I have not once, heard about naturally recovered stats. And this gem.
“and an increase in testing”
DUH. More tests, more cases. People must be so sick they don’t even know they have it so test EVRYONE...
...... Mandatory testing should account for a huge rise in .... “Cases” .... as Opposed to a minimal of Hospitalizations ... And Death ....
Lots of people getting natural immunity, or re-enforcing the immunity from a previous infection.
The hospitals in northern Florida continue to be ghost towns according to colleagues and statistics.
Omicron ends this. For once and for all
So Florida is the only state with higher numbers of Covid cases? Why, DeSantis has to go!
Uh, how long has aoc been on scene? Sounds like a superspreader event.
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