{"id":5911,"date":"2021-08-25T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T16:00:17","slug":"how-floridas-massive-covid-19-spike-got-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5911","title":{"rendered":"How Florida\u2019s massive Covid-19 spike got so bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“It\u2019s no mystery what\u2019s happening in Florida<\/a> right now \u2014 or why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state is experiencing its worst surge of the pandemic<\/a>. Last week, it was averaging<\/a> nearly 25,000 new cases every day. The previous high, in January, was about 18,000. More than 17,000 Floridians are hospitalized with Covid-19, another record; around 230 people are dying every day. Florida leads all states<\/a> in the number of hospitalizations and deaths per capita.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In some ways, what\u2019s happening in Florida right now is a microcosm of the current surge across America: a middling vaccination rate has collided with a more contagious version of the virus. And it\u2019s doing so in a state where political leaders continue to insist people should act as if the pandemic is over \u2014 even as more people are dying every day than any point in the past year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/coronavirus-covid19\/2021\/8\/25\/22639531\/florida-covid-19-cases-deaths-vaccine-numbers-delta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It\u2019s no mystery what\u2019s happening in Florida right now \u2014 or why.<\/p>\n

The state is experiencing its worst surge of the pandemic. Last week, it was averaging nearly 25,000 new cases every day. The previous high, in January, was about 18,000. More than 17,000 Floridians are hospitalized with Covid-19, another record; around 230 people are dying every day. Florida leads all states in the number of hospitalizations and deaths per capita.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“In some ways, what\u2019s happening in Florida right now is a microcosm of the current surge across America: a middling vaccination rate has collided with a more contagious version of the virus. And it\u2019s doing so in a state where political leaders continue to insist people should act as if the pandemic is over \u2014 even as more people are dying every day than any point in the past year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,53,471],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}