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COVID-19 is re-emerging in Florida after a few weeks of slowdown, new federal knowledge on Friday.
The number of coronavirus patients surpassed 4,000 this week for the first time since Feb. 17. The state’s hospitals tended to have 4046 COVID-positive patients on Friday, the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services reported. USA
The number of COVID patients exceeded one hundred per week at the end of June, but has exceeded three hundred per week since July 4.
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Hospitalizations and the number of cases have increased so much that the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has increased. U. S. agencies recommend wearing masks indoors in almost every region of Florida to pressure local medical facilities. There are some major exceptions, such as Collier County: home to Naples, as well as Glades and Flagler counties, and parts of the western Panhandle.
Florida cities, counties and schools are unable to enforce indoor mask needs because of executive orders and legislation Gov. Ron DeSantis signed last year. trains, planes and buses.
Cases have risen statewide to more than 73,000 consistent with the week on average over the past two weeks, according to figures from the state fitness branch released Friday. That’s a decrease from the weekly averages Florida fitness officials have recorded since June 17.
But today, many infections go unnoticed with internal testing.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said Tuesday that the increase in hospitalizations, adding up to an increase in the number of COVID-19 patients ending up in intensive care sets, most likely reflected a sharp buildup in the number. of unreported infections.
Still, official data issues show a resurgence of COVID, driven by the latest strain of an omicron subvariant, dubbed BA. 5.
Coronavirus concentrations more than doubled in Hillsborough County wastewater between July 6 and Wednesday, according to samples collected through Boston’s Biobot Analytics lab. Virality in wastewater is also highest in Orange and Seminole counties in Central Florida.
The number of COVID deaths in Florida has risen with an average of another 386 people in a week since the last pandemic report from state health officials released on July 1. This is slightly lower than the weekly average calculated over the past two weeks, and much more. decrease than the waves of the omicron and delta variants.
At least 76,662 Floridians have died since the pandemic began, state auditors reported this month.
The subvariant omicron BA. 5 has recently dominated among new U. S. cases. USA The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Tuesday that it accounts for more than 60 percent of all new infections.
The White House watched his march through Europe and South Africa. Experts say it appears to be able to evade some antibodies from past infections and vaccines, saying there is no evidence that it causes more serious illness.
The strain has been circulating in Florida since at least May, according to samples collected through the GISAID initiative.
DeSantis management used to send reports on coronavirus variants to a media consortium that indicated the percentage of cases and deaths in each county, as well as the age, sex, race, ethnicity of those infected and their recent travel history. More than two months have passed since the last state report.
At least another 15. 9 million people across the state have received at least one shot of the COVID vaccine, state fitness officials reported Friday. This includes around 5. 8 million with reinforcements. But Florida is counting the vaccines of thousands of other people because vaccine providers have misclassified non-residents as Florida residents.
About 72% of the eligible population 6 months and older has been vaccinated at least, depending on the state.
This includes approximately 1% of eligible youth under the age of 4. Unlike all other governors, DeSantis last month blocked state doctors from ordering COVID vaccines for young people in this age group.
Associated Press and New York Times reports used in this article.
Chris Persaud is the knowledge reporter for the Palm Beach Post. Email cpersaud@pbpost. com.