Have already exceeded the highest 80 tallies reported by any european country so far the total number infected in florida is now nearing 270000 with more than 4000 people having died almost 135000 people have died across the United States mike hanna is in washington d. C. Well there is an absolute crush from hospitals within florida in particular counties in particular in Miami Dade County for example the intensive care units are now at 100 percent capacity they are unable to accept any further patients so this is a picture being repeated in various parts of the state as this massive surge in corona virus infections continues now a startling statistic is that the doubling of the testing in florida it has doubled from 25250000 per day but the real statistic in all of this is that a month ago only 5. 2 percent of those tested were proving positive in the last week that figure has risen to nearly 20 percent now this makes a lie out of president s trumps plame that these increase in cases