Florida now has more coronavirus cases than New York and California leads the nation

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/25/florida-now-has-more-coronavirus-cases-than-new-york-and-california-leads-the-nation.html

Published Sat, Jul 25 20203:08 PM EDT
Emma Newburger

Florida has reported more confirmed coronavirus cases than New York state, as the epicenter of the pandemic has shifted from the Northeast to the Sunbelt region across the American South and West.

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Florida ranks second on the list of U.S. states with the greatest number of cases. California is leading the country with more than 440,325 cases as of Friday. New York, once the epicenter of the outbreak, is now third with at least 411,200 confirmed infections. Texas, now a hotspot as well, has confirmed a total of 380,554 cases.

At least 5,777 people have died from the virus in Florida while New York has recorded 32,607 fatalities, the most of any state in the nation by far.

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However, Florida’s death and hospitalization rates have been steadily rising. Florida reported an average of 121 daily deaths as of Friday, about a 21% increase compared with a week ago. The number of people hospitalized due to the virus is up by 14% on average.

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The U.S. reported more than 1,100 coronavirus deaths on Friday, marking the fourth day in a row that the daily death toll was above 1,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

There are more than four million known cases in the U.S, according to Johns Hopkins University, as states in the South and West struggle to contain the virus. As the number of cases, hospitalizations and virus-related deaths in the U.S continue to rise, health experts warn that the actual number of cases is higher than what has been reported so far.