The pandemic model produced by the Institute of Health Metrics, which has been used to inform decision-making in both the White House and in Tallahassee, says that Florida peaked on April 2, with 77 deaths in one day.
Kevin Systrom, the founder of Instagram, has created a model that estimates the reproductive number of the virus, or R, by state. R is a number epidemiologists use to measure of how many other people one infected person can infect. Systrom’s estimates, updated daily, show Florida is slightly above the epidemic threshold, meaning that on average, one person is infecting slightly more than one other person across the state.