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As COVID-19 testing continues to recede in Florida, it is far behind other states in tracking the virus with promising technology that relies on wastewater.

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Florida lost 70,000 people to Covid. It’s still not prepared for the next wave, faces hospital staff shortages.

Mon, 2022-05-02 08:14 — mike kraft

Florida lost 70,000 people to Covid. It’s still not prepared for the next wave. A report by the Florida Hospital Association estimates 70 percent of Florida hospitals are facing a critical staffing shortage, and the state will be short 60,000 nurses by 2035. POLITICO

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Florida COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again

Thu, 2022-04-28 09:49 — mike kraft

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again in Florida

While cases and hospitalizations have been rising, they are still at relatively low levels when compared to previous periods of the pandemic.

Coronavirus cases have been steadily rising in Florida for more than a month.

The Florida Department of Health reported nearly 20,860 new cases for the week ending April 21 in its latest report released Friday, up from 15,623 cases the previous week.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has also gone up. As of Tuesday afternoon, federal health officials say there were 985 COVID-positive patients in the state’s hospitals. ...

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Covid cases increase in some U.S. states

Mon, 2022-04-04 09:13 — mike kraft

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/04/world/covid-19-mandates-cases-vaccine#some-states-in-the-us-are-seeing-new-cases-increase

Some U.S. states see new covid cases increase.

Across the United States, officials have dropped mask mandates and are closing mass vaccine and testing sites as new coronavirus cases have fallen nationally to about 27,000 a day on average. But several states — mostly in the Northeast — have had some increases in case numbers over the past two weeks, according to a New York Times database

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Florida cuts COVID data reporting to every 2 weeks

Wed, 2022-03-16 10:47 — mike kraft

Florida limits COVID data to every 2 weeks, state says via meme Department of Health officials announced the change via Twitter, using Vince McMahon and cat memes. Tampa Bay Times

Florida officials have again rolled back access to the state’s COVID-19 data, and will now only release key pandemic metrics such as the number of people who have been infected, died and vaccinated once every two weeks instead of every week.

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