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Chasing Life

Trouble in the Sunshine State

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Over the weekend, Florida set a record for the most coronavirus cases reported in a single day. CNN correspondent Rosa Flores has been reporting from the state for months and joins Dr. Sanjay Gupta to talk about how the virus got so out of control. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Cases surging in the sunshine state.

0:05.0

The Department of Health reporting today their highest positivity rate for coronavirus

0:09.0

testing in weeks.

0:10.0

To say Florida's coronavirus case numbers are going in the wrong direction is quite an

0:14.5

understatement.

0:15.5

It's a record shattering 15,000 plus cases reported on Sunday.

0:20.0

Florida is now reporting more than 282,000 people confirmed to have the coronavirus.

0:27.0

According to the Johns Hopkins COVID tracker, but you may remember not that long ago, Florida

0:32.0

was the state that averted disaster, right?

0:35.0

Governor Rick DeSantis relishing that the state's case count was lower than projected while businesses remained open.

0:43.0

To avoid physical distancing and mask mandates, the Republican National Committee actually moved this summer's convention

0:50.0

from Charlotte, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida.

0:53.0

The NBA decided Orlando would be the home for professional basketball's new bubble base,

0:59.0

everyone living and playing in one place.

1:02.0

But on Saturday, the state counted 15,299 new patients diagnosed, the most of any state

1:11.0

in a single day during this entire pandemic.

1:14.0

So what happened?

1:15.0

How did the virus get so out of control in Florida?

1:19.0

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical correspondent, and this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

1:32.0

I have a decontamination station at my door, and I have a PPE station also.

1:38.0

So as I walk the door, I grab my face mask, my gloves, my hand sanitizer, and so I really try to limit my exposure

1:46.0

so that I can continue doing my job.

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