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California Passes New York With Biggest COVID-19 Outbreak In The US: Live Updates

July 22, 2020
Tyler Durden

California Passes New York With Biggest COVID-19 Outbreak In The US: Live Updates

Tyler Durden

Wed, 07/22/2020 – 11:41

Summary:

  • NY sees fewer new cases than yesterday
  • California passes NY in COVID-19 case total
  • US pays $2BN for 100M doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vax candidate
  • Florida releases latest numbers

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Update (1130ET): New York Gov Andrew Cuomo has just released the latest numbers for his state, the first since it sunk behind California in the national rankings maintained by the AP. Happily, NY showed a drop DoD in the number of newly confirmed cases

As we noted earlier, Florida reported 9,785 new coronavirus cases and 139 new deaths on Wednesday, suggesting that the elevated pace of deaths has yet to slow. Statewide, there have now been 379,619 infected and 5,345 Florida residents killed.

To date, 22,243 people have been hospitalized in Florida, 463 more than the prior day. Across the state, 9,492 patients were currently hospitalized with COVID-19 as of 1100ET. The statewide positivity rate declined to 10.5%. South Florida remains the hardest-hit part of the state, with Miami-Dade and Broward Counties among the worst hit. The region has recorded 163,598 total, including 4,513 new cases reported Wednesday from Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.

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After suffering the biggest single-day jump in deaths since May 29…

…the US has reached yet another disappointing COVID-19 milestone as California’s case tally has officially passed that of New York, meaning the most populous state in the US is now also the state with the biggest COVID-19 outbreak.

According to the AP’s count, California’s confirmed coronavirus cases have hit 409,370, surpassing New York’s total (note: totals differ between different sources). JHU data showed Cali’s Wednesday morning total was 1,200 more than NY’s.

However, New York’s 72,302 death toll is far larger than California’s. In fact, it’s not just larger, it’s 9x larger than California’s tally. NY’s infection rate per 100,000 people is also twice California’s (which is unsurprising since Cali has 2x the population). California is far and away the most populous US state, with nearly 40 million people, while New York has about 19.5 million.

After California and New York, Florida occupies the No. 3 spot with about 370k cases, and Texas comes in 4th with 350k. In other news, Florida has just reported its latest daily COVID-19 tallies.

  • FLORIDA COVID-19 CASES RISE 2.6% VS. PREVIOUS 7-DAY AVG. 3.5%

The other piece of major COVID-19-related news from this morning: the US has agreed to pay $2 billion for 100 million doses of an as-yet-unproven COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.