Covid cases rise by 948% in Florida

Alexandra Villarreal

Covid-19 cases in Florida have risen by 948% in just two weeks, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant drives a huge wave of infections and hospitalizations across the US.

Even as Dr Anthony Fauci – Joe Biden’s top medical adviser – cautioned the public to look at hospitalizations and not infections in order to gauge Omicron’s severity, the seven-day average for US patients hospitalized with Covid-19 increased by more than 40% during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

Cases have risen by more than 100% nationally, despite tests being in short supply in many areas, and infections have doubled in the last seven days to an average of 418,000 a day, according to a Reuters tally.

In Florida, local and state officials warned that residents were waiting hours in sometimes miles-long lines just to get a test. Some accused the state health department and the governor, Ron DeSantis, of being missing in action.

“It’s every man/woman for themselves, because leadership is MIA,” tweeted state senator Shevrin Jones.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/jan/03/covid-news-live-4000-more-flights-cancelled-over-omicron-israel-to-offer-fourth-jab-to-over-60s?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-61d36b1c8f08df2f5b4e6809#block-61d36b1c8f08df2f5b4e6809

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martin wrote:The contrast in the care for human beings is stark. IMHO our country has been heading in a bad direction for a long time and it's gonna be a bumpy ride for a long time. Possibly decades if things don't turn around.

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You have to wonder, do people adamantly anti-environmental policy, anti vaccines, anti- public health care have some sort of species wide death wish?

I don't know why there just isn't a better communicated and informed process like this is as a step by step for people

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Clean wrote:

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I believe it because after my last post about a lot of people I know getting it a lot more people I know caught it.

Most of my friends have had it the last couple of weeks- fortunately it was pretty much mild for all of them so far- lasted 5-7 days

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martin wrote:Clean: one take on this:

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Thanks for the link. Gonna take a min to go through this seems like a lot of info in there.

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Clean wrote:

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https://twitter.com/TommyBeer/status/1482441151294681092

It was obvious this was just for businesses. There was no coincidence this change to quarantine time came after Delta CEO asked the CDC for it. This is exactly why I filter all of their decisions through common sense.

CDC has lost so much credibility during the pandemic.