Florida back over 5k new coronavirus cases with infections among younger age groups

[TomCADem]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Florida’s resident death toll from coronavirus rose to 32,820 with the addition of 41 more reported fatalities on Tuesday while also adding 5,302 more positive COVID-19 cases to bring the total to 2,016,513.

Tuesday’s report showed infections topping 5,000 again after two days falling below. The state has not reported more than 10,000 cases, though, since Feb. 5.

Infections had been in decline since mid-February, and still do among older Floridians. A slight rise in positive cases among the 25-34 and 35-44 age groups has seen cases level out in the last two weeks and even increase slightly week over week. The average daily reported infections for the last seven days has been 4,584 while compared to a daily average of 4,527 for the previous week.

With a population of about 21.5 million, about one in 11 people in the state have now been infected. That number is also about in 11 nationally and one in 63 worldwide.

Read more: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-florida-coronavirus-tuesday-march-23-20210323-uahcjhtkmnhplg4kr4lenzhrfi-story.html

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While DeSantis is happy to simply manage an infection rate of about 5 percent positivity, the problem is that while Republicans are happy to tolerate a relatively high infection rate so long as there is not a crushing spike, this means that Florida becomes an exporter of COVID throughout the Nation and this increases the risk of more variants.