Florida's case rates are shifting in the right direction, but percent positivity rates still remain too high.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. The U.S. passed an alarming milestone of 5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 Sunday and while the country leads the world in COVID cases, that might not be entirely accurate.<\/p>\n
Well, we're still the world leaders in terms of reported cases and deaths. But we know that many countries are not reporting accurately,\" said Jay Wolfson, a public health expert with USF Health. \"China is not reporting accurately. Iran is certainly not reporting accurately. Brazil is barely reporting.<\/p>\n
But either way, he says the new case milestone is alarming: \"It's like, I don't really care what other people do at this point. I care about us, and 5 million is a lot of people<\/p>\n
In Florida, public health professionals hope we are seeing a shift.<\/p>\n
We are kind of hovering in this range of between seven (thousand) and 10,000 cases a day, something-hundred deaths plus a day. If we can push that rate down, it's very important,\" Wolfson said.<\/p>\n
It's moving in the right direction, but far from being out of the woods.<\/p>\n
So I'm delighted that the case rate has gone down a bit,\" Wolfson said. \"This is really good news. But let's not get carried away. We're still in the midst of an extremely dangerous pandemics that is highly contagious.<\/p>\n
With school around the corner, Wolfson encourages everyone to be flexible.<\/p>\n
\"There's not an on-off switch. It's a dimmer. So we're going to watch every day every week as we move into the school season as we move into the autumn, he said.<\/p>\n
As we see outbreaks in specific areas, experts recommend scaling back movement in those places to prevent our percent positive rate from climbing.<\/p>\n
Weve been between eight to twelve percent in Hillsborough County, and we need to be below 5 percent,\" Wolfson said. \"Because that demonstrates that it remains stable below that World Health Organization ceiling level.<\/p>\n
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