Florida reported nearly 9,000 new positive cases of the coronavirus with a 13% positivity rate compared to the number of tests.“We started to see a little bit of an increase in the positivity that second week of June.
Some of that was driven by some hotspots around the state, but then some of it was driven, particularly in the last two weeks, by a lot of community transmission particularly from the younger demographic,” DeSantis said. “So, that case, positivity particularly in the last week, has trended up.
It started creeping up the second week of June, but then the last two weeks has gone up.”DeSantis and medical experts with Lee Health in Fort Myers spoke Friday about the rate of positive cases and what needs to be done to slow the.