Florida has now seen more than 300,000 cases of COVID-19 reported since the start of the pandemic. More than 77,000 cases were logged in the last 7 days.
“Going back and bunkering in place doesn’t remove” the virus,Medical experts say the main culprit behind the recent spike in COVID-19 cases appear to be younger people who don’t wear masks in public or practice social distancing.to flatten the curve well before the White House did and then saw the number of new cases rise in quadruple digits after it reopened.on his Ohio constituents about “the current state of the coronavirus pandemic and the recent increases in cases and virus spread.
“We certainly have seen a shift,” Dr. Jeff Smith, chief operating officer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, told MSNBC. “Early on in March and April, during our earlier peaks, we were seeing patients primarily in their 80s and 90s who were very, very ill. Now the majority of our hospitalized patients are between ages 40 and 50.”
While these younger patients tend to recover faster, the concern is they could infect “younger populations, or vulnerable populations, and transmit to the sick and the elderly,” Smith said.
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