Sarasota County's COVID-19 cases up 71.6%; Florida cases surge 42%

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New coronavirus cases leaped in Florida in the week ending Sunday, rising 42% as 15,684 cases were reported. The previous week had 11,048 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Florida ranked fifth among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States increased 10.4% from the week before, with 92,148 cases reported. With 6.45% of the country's population, Florida had 17.02% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 28 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.

Many places did not report cases and deaths around the Fourth of July, which would shift those cases into the following week and make week-to-week comparisons inaccurate.

Sarasota County reported 139 cases in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 81 cases. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 34,230 cases and 844 deaths.

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I suspect Sarasota infection rates will continue to climb after last Saturday's LoserPalooza, although a lot of the Trumpanzees were from out of town -- so they'll be helping spread the virus in their hometowns.