BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – On Friday, just before the Brevard County Policy Group voted for a second time on whether to partially close Space Coast beaches, Maria Stahl, the Florida Department of Health representative on the panel, offered a sober but stark assessment of the local COVID-19 situation to the group's eight members present.
The number of COVID-19 cases exceed what official numbers showed, she said, and were sure to rise in the coming days, News 6 partner Florida Today reported.
She said Brevard’s cases not only included patients with out-of-state connections but also instances of “community spread,” meaning that residents are passing on the infection without any link to known cases.