Florida Has More COVID-19 Cases Than Most Countries

Florida has become the world’s new epicenter for coronavirus.

Here are some stats:

The state's total case count is 282,000 with 4,276 deaths and counting.

Florida had more new cases in 1 day than the entire US did in about 2 months.

Florida set the record for most COVID-19 cases in a single day by any state since the coronavirus pandemic began on Saturday (July 11) with 15,299 new cases.

Florida (population 21 million) has 12x the cases of Australia (population 25 million) and South Korea (population 51 million) combined.

Florida has triple the number of China’s COVID-19 cases.

If Florida were a country, it would rank No. 9 in the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins data.