You can only count Total Outcomes. There are only two outcomes, death and recovery. Number of cases is like number of people in an airport. Until they get on a plane and safely reach their destination, you don't know their outcome.
In the US there are over 2 Million cases. There are 116,847 deaths and 842,006 recovered. Divided the number of deaths by the total outcomes (death plus recovered) times 100 will give you the percent death rate.
EX. 116,847 + 842,006 = 958,853. 116,847/958,853= 0.1218 x 100 = 12.18%.
Florida does not give the recoved count.

Common sense tells you that the increase is due to increased testing. It’s time to get on with life and stop living in fear. How? Be ready to meet your maker. We were all born to die.

A possible answer is in trials right now. It is a type of cocktail, similar to the idea for HIV. Maybe this will short circuit this pandemic, if it is successful.

Good point anyone over 60 needs to be aware of where they go and who is at that location and take personal responsibility

I'm a bit surprised, that we haven't heard of any businesses making customers sign some kind of waiver...to 'try' to legally protect themselves. :shrug:

I'm also surprised, we haven't heard (given our highly litigious society)...lawsuits regarding such.

I suppose it will just be a matter of time...until that catches on. :oops:

Just heard on the news today that the UK is in phase 3 of testing a vaccine. They are cautiously hopeful.Keep fingers crossed.

We have heard that people attending certain political rallies will have to sign a waiver.

All the people celebrating for Memorial Day weekend.

I’m not going to waste my time reading through 4 pages of posts ..... someone else has probably said this .... so be it

Have you ever considered that more testing = higher numbers ???

Yes, but A better metric, percent positives, doubled the past week from 2% to almost 5%, not a good direction...

One hopes this will be a reminder to those who think it is over, that it is NOT over and will not be over for a much longer time than any of us would like. My mother used to describe the 1918 flu and how not only her entire family was sick, but their whole neighborhood and how it lasted for four (4) years.

As we have seen, the media picks and chooses which states they want to portray as doing a good job or a bad job on virus control. Even though Florida has managed the pandemic much better than New York, it gets attacked in the press repeatedly.

Now they are running stories about spikes of cases in various states and appear to put the blame on reopening too early. Comparing graphs of new cases in Florida and New York gives a better understanding.

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Look at that huge spike! 2500 new cases in one day!

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Look how good New York is doing, they've gone down from 12,000 new cases per day to 2000, great job!

I don't know if the Florida spike is an anomaly from backlogged tests or if its a sign the virus is resurging. If it's a resurge I would certainly take a look at huge protests that have been taking place for past two weeks as a source for new infections.

There has been no big spike in Sumter County, 4 new cases in past week. There also haven't been any huge protests either.

We are going to far to fast with easing restrictions

Have you seen the amount of visitors in the Villages lately? People are on vacation! Wait until you see the Village numbers in 2 weeks.

I don't want to die just now. My maker says I have choices. People who are older make up most of those who die and they die a horrible death, alone. I do not live in fear, but I am staying home. Husband fetches groceries and things wearing a mask. He continues to play golf, riding alone and keeping a distance. We have folks who love us and they think it is the right thing to do. How bad is it to stay home and swim in the pool and paint pictures and clean closets and cook and watch some nice movies and British T.V. with two very fun and enjoyable people?? I am indeed blessed. I am so sad for those alone.