Florida is one of the hardest-hit states in the country by the coronavirus, but daily new cases have appeared to decline in recent days. Testing, however, has fallen even faster.
Florida reported a record 276 new Covid-19 deaths Tuesday, bringing the total number of Covid-19 deaths in Florida to 8,553.
Emergency Medical Technicians arrive with a patient while a funeral car begins to depart at North Shore Medical Center where the coronavirus disease patients are treated, in Miami, Florida, July 14, 2020.Florida reported 276 new deaths caused by the coronavirus on Tuesday, marking the highest number of deaths reported in a single day by the state since the pandemic began.
The percent of tests that came back positive on Monday also increased to 10.3%, up from about 8.6% on Sunday. That statistic is a closely watched data point that could indicate whether the outbreak is expanding and whether the state is conducting enough testing. "I'm always cautious. It does seem like we're on a downward trend maybe," Cindy Prins, an epidemiologist at the University of Florida, told CNBC on Tuesday, saying the state's positivity rate, or percent of positive Covid-19 tests, has fallen from its recent peak at 12.3%, according to the state's health department. She added that the state ought to conduct more testing to better understand the outbreak.
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