Florida sees 21,000-plus coronavirus cases Saturday, breaking one-day record | Fox NewsThis is actually good news to me, as we approach herd immunity. The context isn't there in the article, so I will add some here, from data I could find online.
74 percent of the new cases are among those 50 and under. Of the 26 percent over 50, 96 percent (estimated) of those are unvaccinated. Those 50 and under account for 0.4% of total deaths in Florida.
I do not imagine a lot of fatalities, although there is one area where the hospitals are in a bit of trouble.*
So, it's hot and humid here now, and all the people who want to go to bars/restaurants are inside.
(We still sit outside whenever we can. We can take the heat and humidity, so long as we are shaded.)
As far as the below, the highest positivity rates of the cases are generally in non-coastal communities, where the vaccination rates are lower. The outliers are generally in North Florida, around Jacksonville. Most of the other major areas are around 70 percent or so. Dade is almost 80 percent now.
* The Florida Hospital Association said Friday that statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations are nearing last year’s peak, and one of the state's largest health care systems, AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division, last week advised it would no longer be conducting non-emergency surgeries in order to free up resources for COVID-19 patients.
