ORLANDO, Fla. – Days after Florida first received the initial round of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, a second vaccine is taking another step this week to approval but Florida and many other states are reporting increasing virus cases.On Thursday, Florida’s Department of Health reported more than 13,100 new positive COVID-19 infections, the third-highest since the pandemic began.
The last time the state saw a count that high was in mid-July. The most Florida reported was on July 11 with more than 15,000 cases, and July 15 marked the second-highest with more than 13,700 positive cases.However, the state’s positivity rate is still below 10% and hospitalizations are not reaching near the numbers we saw this summer.