Florida’s record-breaking number of coronavirus cases in one day — a staggering 15,000-plus new cases reported on Sunday — is a very troubling sign for the state’s already strained hospitals, infectious disease experts tell the Herald.
Florida’s record-breaking number of coronavirus cases in one day — a staggering 15,000-plus new cases reported on Sunday — is a very troubling sign for the state’s already strained hospitals, infectious disease experts tell the Herald.
The Sunshine State’s outbreak is “completely out of control,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.
“When you have that many cases, it runs the risk of them running into hospital capacity issues,” he said. “We’re already hearing of strained hospitals and ICUs, and now that’s becoming much more precarious.”
Florida shattered the national record for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the beginning of the pandemic, adding 15,299 confirmed cases.
California had the previous record of daily positive cases — 11,694, which was set on Wednesday.
