COVID Cases Continue To Rise, No Fatalities Here

    Reported cases of COVID 19 continue to rise in Lake County, with weekly numbers indicating 1,962 cases occurred in Lake County from July 23 - July 30. That was an increase from 1,165 reported a week earlier and the sixth week in a row that cases have risen.
   As has been the case since June 3, no new fatalities were reported as a result of COVID 19, meaning everyone who has recently contracted the virus has survived, at least through last Friday. Overall, Lake County’s reported mortality rate since the pandemic began was at 1.83%.
   The rise in county cases mirrors a continued statewide increase in virus cases. Overall in Florida, 110,724 new cases were reported in the July 23-30 period, with 409 fatalities. That equates to a .36% mortality rate, meaning the survival rate within the provided data was 99.64%. Overall since the pandemic began, Florida’s mortality rate is 1.48%, numbers that seem to verify health officials claims that the current strains of COVID 19 are far less deadly.