Increased testing for the coronavirus has caused the number of confirmed cases to skyrocket in Florida. Wednesday saw the biggest increase in cases over a single day so far, with 510 new cases more than the day before.
Three of those cases were at Atria Willow Wood, the Fort Lauderdale assisted-living facility that’s the site of Broward’s three deaths . At least 13 Willow Wood residents are infected, and three tests are still pending, two of which are employees.
More people are infected in Hollywood — on average — than anywhere else in South Florida. But what’s going on in Hollywood could be closer to the truth of what’s going on with the virus in the rest of the state. “It’s not that we have more cases,” Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy said. “It’s that other places don’t know what they have.”
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