Florida's governor promised to release the state's daily COVID-19 hospitalization rate. That still hasn't happened.

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• Florida remains one of the few states to not release data on its daily COVID-19 hospitalization rate.
• At a press conference on Tuesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ignored questions about when he would release the data, the Miami Herald reported.

• The Florida Department of Health reported 7,361 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the rate of positive tests spiking to over 19%.

• The surge has been linked to DeSantis' early decision to reopen bars, restaurants, and other indoor facilities.

• "When everything started to open up and ease up, then our volume picked up," Dr. Mark Supino, a physician at Jackson Health System in Miami, told Business Insider last week.
  
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