Florida Moves Past New Jersey In COVID Deaths
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Florida has moved past New Jersey to have the fourth-highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the country, according to totals posted Thursday on a Johns Hopkins University website that tracks national and international data.
The website showed Florida with 16,267 COVID-19 deaths, four more than New Jersey.
The Florida total does not include 203 non-residents who have died of COVID-19 in the state, according to numbers from the Florida Department of Health.
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New York has had the most COVID-19 deaths, with 33,377, the Johns Hopkins website shows.
It was followed Thursday by Texas, with 17,656 deaths, and California, with 17,238 deaths.
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