COVID-19 CONVERSATION: Data, Testing and Tracing in Florida and South Florida.

May 24, 2020 Leave a comment

May 26 Data, Florida (Miamiherald.com)

Smoothing the curve means to create and plateau of infections and deaths, but the curve is supposed to go down and keeping going down after 14 days decline.

Florida and South Florida are jumping the gun.

TESTING: It is estimated that the testing rate in Florida is approximately 1% of the population.

CONTACT TRACING: The total number of contact tracers is 1,000 for the state of Florida. For Miami-Dade County has 175 tracers but is thought to be contracted more just as it opened. Too little, too late.

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Unknown's avatarAbout Stephen E. McGaughey
Resident of the City of Coral Gables; Formerly with Inter-American Development Bank, Senior Environmental Project and Policy Leaders, Agricultural Economics, Forest Sector Projects and Policies, Country Representative Financing in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic

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