https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏥" title="Krankenhaus" aria-label="Emoji: Krankenhaus"> COVID-19 hospitalizations in FL

Summary: NOT VERY GOOD

Since 3 weeks ago (10/18), we are up 643 currently hospitalized patients, or 31.7%.

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Of the 23 counties w/ >250k population:
- 3 have more than doubled (Pasco, Seminole, Collier)
- 3 have 50-100% https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬆️" title="Pfeil nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach oben">(Palm Beach, Sarasota, Broward)
- 7 have 25-50% https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬆️" title="Pfeil nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach oben"> (Escambia, Hillsborough, St. Lucie, Lee, Duval, Dade, Marion)
- 4 have 10-25% https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬆️" title="Pfeil nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach oben">
- 6 have less than a 10% change

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Positivity also...not good.

In addition to what& #39;s below for today and 7-day trends for 3 positivity measures

@HealthyFla released their weekly report, with their preferred positivity measure for the week

For 11/1-11/7 positivity was 7.2%

That& #39;s the highest since 8/9-8/15

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So, today& #39;s # of cases (6860) being the highest # since Aug 11 (if you ignore Labcorp dump day)...

& our 7-day avg (4957) is the highest since Aug 17

& that the epidemic curve for people 80+ looks like the pic on the RIGHT

it& #39;s not "JUST" more tests & more cases...

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And with trends in cases for kiddos looking like it is on LEFFT, w/ >11% positivity in the past 7 days...

How can it be the not 1 case of MIS-C has been added to the daily pediatric report since SEP 19 when 15 cases were added in September alone?

Have we really had 0 cases?

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