BREAKING: Florida records new record number of coronavirus deaths on Wednesday

Florida recorded 120 COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, a record high for the state that is seeing one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the U.S.

More than 4,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Florida, according to the state’s health department.

he state reported nearly 9,000 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 233,000.

“I expect unfortunately that in the days and weeks ahead we are going to see increases in the number of people dying from this virus,” Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told reporters Monday.

“Death always lags hospitalizations by a couple of weeks. I'm hoping that we will not ever get to a point where we have the level of deaths that we saw in the worst days in New York, partly because we've gotten better at treating the disease, but I am worried that we're going to see an increase.”

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