Nearly one-third of kids who have been checked for the coronavirus in Florida have evaluated positive, according to information from the state’s Department of Health that comes in the middle of continuous debate and uncertainty over whether schools will reopen this fall.
Of the 54,022 people under the age of 18 who have been tested for COVID-19 in Florida, 16,797 of them, or roughly 31%, have actually tested positive, information released Friday shows. In comparison, approximately 11%of everyone in the state who has been checked for the virus– roughly 2.8 million people— has actually evaluated favorable.
Almost half of the state’s positive cases amongst children remained in the counties of Broward, Dade, Hillsborough and Palm Beach.
Cases throughout the Sunlight State have increased at alarming rates in recent weeks. On Thursday the state set a new one-day coronavirus death record while likewise reporting nearly 14,000 brand-new cases of COVID-19– the second-highest day-to-day total that the state has actually seen. Its highest total reported last weekend set a national record.
In the middle of this development, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has continued to push for schools to resume this fall, with him on Tuesday informing mayors in south Florida– the state’s hardest-hit location for cases– that doing so is low-risk.
” There is threat in everything,” he stated, according to the Tampa Bay Times. ” What’s the level of threat for school-age kids? … Fortunately, the risk is fairly low.”
Numerous research studies have actually suggested that kids are less most likely to contract the infection along with transmit it to adults, though it’s not yet clear why.
Dr. Megan Culler Freeman, a virologist and pediatrician at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, suggested that case numbers among kids are low since this age group is less likely to be checked. This might be because children normally contract a more mild kind of the disease and do not show signs.
” It does appear that kids are less affected than grownups. But I think