Florida’s Covid-19 deaths rose to a daily record of 188, more than double the number reported a day earlier, even as the pace of new infections slowed.
The surge of coronavirus deaths among the state’s residents appears to confirm concern among health experts that fatalities would increase after cases climbed in Florida and around the southwest. Texas, Arizona and South Carolina are among the other states where death tolls have begun mounting, weeks after case counts began to surge amid reopening and politically charged debates over mask use and social distancing.
Florida’s previous record death toll was reported Thursday, with 120 among residents. That number dropped to 93 in the state’s Friday report, only to more than double overnight to 188.
One reason cited for the lower death tolls reported earlier was that younger people were contracting the virus more than more vulnerable elderly people. The average age in Florida for people with the virus remained at 40, unchanged from the day before….
Poor headline.
A one day drop is meaningless.
Let them drop daily for a couple of weeks ,then you can more accurately say they are “dropping.”
And with the July 4 “spike” looming about this time next week?I wouldn’t count on that happening.
A better headline: Cases climb, voting Republican will kill you!
So don’t!
I think the days of Republicans referring to themselves ,with some sense of moral superiority ,as “pro life” will become a late night comedy joke.
I never let them get away with that myself.I properly refer to them as anti abortion.
Now though ,with Republican Governors taking actions that directly create circumstances that cause people to die?And then there’s the deranged Republican LG of Texas actually advocating that seniors had a duty to die to “protect the economy?”Their calling themselves “pro life” sounds ridiculous.
I’m reminded of a meme I saw the other day
Remember when you said you’d rather die than vote for Hillary?
Well here we are
The University of Washington model ,that Trump used as long as it was showing deaths declining.,is now predicting 208,225 deaths by Election Day.
Needlesss to say, you don’t hear much about it anymore.
The countrywide 7-day average death totals has gone up 5 days in a row. That is significant.