Florida Is Now Considered The COVID-19 Epicenter
Written by Site Hub on July 15, 2020
Infectious disease experts are now saying that Miami, Florida is the new epicenter of the coronavirus. According to the statistics, Miami is now just as bad as Wuhan, China was when the pandemic began.
Wuhan detected around 50,000 cases in the months between December and April. Florida has just passed that mark with a record number of 64,000 cases according to data collected by the state.
48 hospitals in the in the state are at capacity and 8 of those are in the Miami-Dade county area. Data from those hospitals shows that ICU beds are at over 60% full and ventilator use is maxed out.
Over half of the states in the US are seeing rising virus numbers and are considering another round of lockdowns.
Lilian Abbo, an official with the Jackson Health System said:
“What we were seeing in Wuhan — six months ago, five months ago — now we are there.”
Source:
CNN
