On July 4, Florida registered an unenviable record: 11,458 new cases 🤦♂️
Beachgoers walk on Miami Beach, Florida as COVID-19 cases in the state surge. Picture: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP.Governor DeSantis is urging his citizens to remain calm. He reassured Florida this week that its medical system could handle the increasing caseload. Nor was it necessary to shut clubs, bars, cafes and shops. July 4, he said, should be enjoyed.
Others states are more cautious. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards late last month delayed moves to re-open his state. On Friday, 1728 new cases were identified. Most of them were among people aged 18 and 29.Crowds continue to flock to clubs and bars in Miami Beach despite raising case numbers in Florida. Picture: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP.Texas, which has a population roughly similar to that of Australia, late last month began to reimpose quarantine measures.
That should ring alarm bells. The July 4 summer holiday features high on the calendars of America’s youth. And Florida is one of its favourite party destinations. The Fourth of July weekend presents a ‘perfect storm’ warned Boston Medical Centre infectious disease expert Dr Joshua Barocas: “The combination of travel, the combination of reopening – perhaps in some cases, too early – and the combination of people not necessarily following some of these preventive guidelines”.
“I have multiple sources at DOH who have just told me they have been instructed this week to change the numbers and begin slowly deleting deaths and cases so it looks like Florida is improving next week in the lead-up to July 4, like they’ve ‘made it over the hump’,” she tweeted.US federal health officials planned a Fourth of July weekend testing “blitz” across Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
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