⁍ A total of 6,991 people are hospitalized because of the virus, the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration said Friday.
⁍ Friday brought 63,900 new Covid-19 cases nationwide, a single-day record, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
⁍ While 29 states saw an increase in new cases compared to last week, Miami-Dade County in Florida on Friday reported a staggering 28% positivity rate.

– “We’ve never really gotten out of it,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. On Friday, a day that saw a single-day record 63,900 new cases of coronavirus, or “Covid-19,” across the US, Fauci told SiriusXM that the US is still “knee deep” in the first wave of the disease, which has killed at least 134 people and infected 3.18 million, per the Washington Post. “I think the numbers are going to look worse as we go into next week, and we need to make sure that there’s going to be plenty of hospital beds available in the Houston area,” says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, whose state saw 105 deaths on Thursday, also a single-day record. Florida saw 11,433 new cases and 93 deaths on Friday, while 29 states saw an increase in cases compared to last week, reports the Miami Herald. Miami-Dade County, meanwhile, saw a staggering 28% positivity rate, or the percentage of people who test positive for the virus, on Friday.