Florida shattered the nation's record for new daily coronavirus cases this week, logging 15,000 new COVID-19 infections in a single day. The record easily surpassed New York, which on its worst day in April recorded 12,000 new COVID cases.
People wearing protective face masks ride a scooter down Ocean Drive during the coronavirus pandemic, July 12, 2020, in Miami Beach, Fla.
Instead, many states pushed to reopen their economies early. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis's stay-at-home order expired May 4 and by early June, the state was reopening bars and entertainment ventures, despite rising cases. Being on the same page,"takes the burden off a particular person or city to be the ‘bad person," he added.
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