Florida reports 245 more deaths linked to COVID-19, more than 5K new cases

[TomCADem]

Source: WFTV

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Health announced Tuesday that another 245 people have died statewide from COVID-19.

That’s a sharp day-over-day rise compared to the 73 deaths state officials reported Monday.

Florida’s death toll now stands at 7,524.

The number of new coronavirus cases was also higher than the previous day. On Tuesday, officials recorded another 5,446 cases, up from 4,752 positive tests reported on Monday.

Read more: https://www.wftv.com/news/local/florida-reports-245-more-deaths-linked-covid-19-more-than-5k-new-cases/V6HOZHUODZHM3E5PO5JRFTEHNU/

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I guess this is why Trump suddenly backtracked and said that vote by mail is suddenly okay in Florida.

[ananda]

1. I think Florida's reporting system is very unreliable.

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[jpak]

2. 1st degree murder

Lock them up

[Loge23]

3. The testing site all closed for the weekend

In anticipation of the possible hurricane, the state closed all the testing sites for the weekend.
That is the reason why the counts were down coming out of the weekend.

[TomCADem]

5. Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis disagree on pausing COVID-19 testing

This is one of the rare areas of disagreement between DeSantis and Scott. Recently, it seems like Scott had been distancing himself from DeSantis with respect to how to respond to COVID-19 even though DeSantis has been hewing pretty close to Trump's talking points on the virus such as blaming the high numbers on better testing.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/353963-rick-scott-warns-against-pause-in-covid-19-testing

Sen. Rick Scott continued on Friday to contend that states, specifically Florida, need to offer better “information” regarding COVID-19. But the current Governor disagrees.

The first-term Republican was on Fox Business Friday morning with host Stuart Varney when he took issue with the state’s decision to close down testing sites ahead of Hurricane Isaias.

“Testing is really important,” Scott said. “We do need to get the testing done. We need to get the tests and results back quickly so people can quarantine themselves and tell everybody else they may be positive.”

“You shut down a testing center, you just slow down information,” Scott added.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, addressing media in Tallahassee at the Emergency Operations Center, noted that shutting down state testing sites along the east coast would not bring the effort grinding to a halt.

[intrepidity]

4. He told Swan, less than a week ago, Florida's numbers were improving

Swan tried to push back, unsuccessfully.

There is just simply no accountability to reality with this monster.

[sarcasmo]

6. This thing is going away. It will go away like things go away.

[TomCADem]

7. Trump: It is what it is...

Link to tweet

[Bengus81]

8. Am I to assume CV did NOT go away with warm weather??

Hmmmm....the Fuehrer said it would!!