MIAMI _ The Florida Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard reported 1,838 new cases Monday, the fewest since June 15's 1,758 new cases, with a positive test rate under 5% for the second consecutive day.
This can't be dismissed as a holiday weekend anomaly, either. Though the Labor Day Weekend might lead to an out-of-step case count, that didn't happen on July 4 weekend (9,458, 11,458, 10,059) or on Memorial Day Weekend (676, 740, 879).
The state's pandemic totals sit at 648,269 cases and, after the 22 deaths reported Monday, 12,023.
As for the positive test rate, the 4.55% reported Monday was the lowest in weeks and pulled the seven-day average daily rate down to 5.57%. That includes the 6.67% from the day of the massive Quest Diagnostics data dump of test results, which the state insists bumped the positive rate up almost a full percent that day.
The previous seven days, the average daily positive test rate was 5.70%.
