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Originally Posted by Dond1959
I would really encourage people to go to the website worldometers.info. Look for the US Coronavirus page and click on Florida. That will give you a wealth of facts on cases here in Florida.
One chart is the daily cases going back to the beginning. It show a rising trend through summer that peaks at over 15,000 cases in July. The numbers trend down through August and into September and were consistently below 5,000 cases a day. Over the past 10 days two days have been over 5,000. So we may be beginning to see an upward trend but it is really too early to know for sure. However, we are nowhere near where we were in July.
Another interesting chart is the number of active cases in Florida. These peaked in August at over 500,000. Active cases are now around 200,000. Same trend with deaths, peaking and on a downward trend.
I hope you will look at these charts and make your own mind up about the current risk and what precautions you should take. Don’t take others opinions, look at data and make your own call on what to do.
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The problem with that is that Florida is a such a big state that the overall numbers don't mean a lot to individuals. They would be having huge increases in Miami-Dade. Broward and Palm Beach counties while cases in The Villages are dropping.
The problem with The Villages is that very few statistics are actually taken from The Villages. They are usually done by county. So even though we can see numbers from the three counties, we don't know how many of those cases are in The Villages proper.
Lake is a big county with only a small section in The Villages. The same can be said for Marion. Sumter has the prison where the number of cases is going to be higher than the outside world.
So just because Florida or any of the three counties goes up or down, that doesn't mean that the same holds true for The Villages.