New daily virus cases in Florida is lowest since July

[libertybele]

New daily virus cases in Florida is lowest since July

Florida reported more than 75,000 cases of COVID-19 over the week, continuing a drop from summer highs when the state battled a fierce surge in infections fueled by the delta variant, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The figures released Friday brought the state’s daily average for the week to more than 10,800 cases, though there were 11,275 new cases reported on Friday. A month ago, Florida was averaging more than 21,000 cases a day. The daily average for the past week was the lowest since the end of July.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Florida since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 is just shy of 3.5 million cases, according to the CDC.

Despite the decline in new cases, Florida marked a somber milestone in the past week, surpassing 50,000 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began. As of last Thursday, Florida had 51,240 COVID-19-related deaths.

Epidemiologists say the state’s rates of vaccination has outpaced the national average, but it has not been enough to keep the highly contagious variant at bay because of its outsized population of elderly people and low vaccination rates among younger groups they interact with.................

https://www.winknews.com/2021/09/18/new-daily-virus-cases-in-florida-is-lowest-since-july/

[DB]

I would expect that those states with the highest average age to have the highest per capital death rate.

Florida and Arizona are well known to have a lot of senior citizens.

Utah has the lowest average age of any state I believe.

[PeteS in CA]

Looking you know where, FL's new cases and daily deaths both peaked and started falling around the end of the third week of August, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/ . Daily deaths have been fewer than 10 for several days, not that I'm minimizing anyone's death.