Florida Reports Just 7 Deaths, New Jersey Sees Promising Drop In Hospitalizations: Live Updates
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Tue, 05/26/2020
Summary:
Canada reports another 103 deaths
Italy now reporting 230,555 cases
Florida reports 7 new deaths, 424 new cases
NJ reports 54 deaths, 703 new cases
NYSE floor trading reopens
Global COVID-19 cases top 5.5 mil
Montenegro now ‘coronavirus-free’
Tory junior minister resigns over Cummings scandal
UK nears 50k deaths
UK plans to reopen car showrooms
US death toll: 99,800
Merck buys Austrian biotech company
Novovax announces start of human trial in Australia
CDC estimates infection mortality rate at less than 0.3%
Millions of Wuhan residents tested over past week
Germany to lift travel warnings on June 15
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Update (1220ET): Canada has just released its latest figures for Tuesday. It counted 103 new deaths across the country, and just 895 new cases. That brought its death toll to 6,556 and its case total to 85,998.
Italy just reported its numbers, including just 397 new cases and 78 deaths, the third straight session where deaths were below 100.
In total, Italy is now counting 230,555 cases and 32,955 deaths.
Before we go, an interesting pattern:
Coronavirus success stories:
– South Korea
– Germany
– Norway
– Iceland
– Denmark
– Finland
– New ZealandSix of these countries led by women.
— Norbert Elekes (@NorbertElekes) May 26, 2020
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Update (1140ET): The NYT has been harping non-stop on the fact that nearly a dozen states have reported an uptick in cases since they started rolling back restrictions, only rarely mentioning that a commensurate rise in testing capacity was often enough to explain these increases, and that public health officials in these states expected cases to rise in the near term as people started interacting in public again.
In Florida on Tuesday, the Florida Department of Health reported 424 new cases over the last 24 hours, bringing the states total confirmed cases to 52,170. Meanwhile, the number of reported deaths increased by just 7 to 2,259.
The total statewide number of patients hospitalized with the virus is just 9,482, though the Department of Health noted that this figure does not reflect the number of COVID-19 patients currently in hospitals, according to the News-Press of Southwest Florida.
New Jersey, which has reopened much more slowly than Florida, just reported a 1,500-patient drop in hospitalizations over the past 2 weeks.
LOOK: Our hospitals currently have 2,723 patients being treated for #COVID19 – a decrease of nearly 1,500 over the past two weeks.
Our Field Medical Stations reported 45 patients. pic.twitter.com/e2TbgPWV7E
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) May 26, 2020
Meanwhile the state reported just 54 deaths on Tuesday…
Sadly, we’ve lost another 54 members of our New Jersey family to #COVID19 related complications, bringing our statewide total to 11,191.
We cannot fail the memories of those we’ve lost to this virus by needlessly putting the lives of others in danger. pic.twitter.com/u78JCOK8Ox
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) May 26, 2020
…and just 703 cases.
NEW: We’ve received 703 new positive #COVID19 test results, bringing our statewide total to 155,764.
Given that this was a major holiday weekend, it may be a few more days for these numbers to smooth out.
The spot positivity rate for tests from May 21st is 5 percent. pic.twitter.com/7zddERY5Hz
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) May 26, 2020
