Surgeon General urges Floridians to get vaccinated as new COVID-19 Delta Variant spreads Published: Surgeon General urges Floridians to get vaccinated as cases spike WASHINGTON D.C. – United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy gave a stark warning about the spike of new coronavirus cases in the Sunshine State. “I’m very worried about my home state of Florida,” Murthy said Wednesday. “The Delta Variant is the most transmissible version of COVID-19 that we’ve seen to date.” The highly contagious strain accounts for 83 percent of new infections, with more than 35,000 COVID-19 cases reported every day. That’s up 145 percent in just the last two weeks.