It goes up and down like a yo-yo (hundreds each day). I don't trust any numbers coming out of FL though. When they go to the morticians and ask for the numbers and then they compare them to the average numbers of deaths and the reasons for those deaths over the past 10 years, then I will consider their numbers more realistically. Until then, it is a story right out of Disneyworld...fiction!

IL has been super high for weeks but since they ended "stay home" on May 1st, the numbers are remaining high. I think that may be the problem there.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/illinois

Parts of the state will open next month

The charts say that they stopped doing that on May 1st. Have they extended that (I hope)?

NE businesses are closed until at least May 30. There are regional criteria for phased reopening. That chart is only sort of correct.
Places like nurseries & garden centers, with limited capacity & pub health requirements were opened. Obvious social distance friendly things like fishing lakes, golf courses & hiking trails were opened.
Nonessential retail is still very limited.
Also, testing in IL has exploded in the last 2 weeks or so.
In midApril the goal was 10,000 tests a day.
Didn't hit that until less than 3 weeks ago.
In the last 17 days, the state has averaged nearly 14,000 tests a day. In 30 days, they ran 100-120,000 tests. In the last 17 days, they've tested 240,000.
The upswing in cases is apples & oranges.
Unfortunately, the death numbers are still had, but hospitalizations & ICU admissions are flattening.
We're far from over the worst of it.

Even my state (CA) which was doing well is not so good these days either. Too many people who had been definite on "no going out" are now saying, "maybe you can if you do this and this and they do that and that, etc...". Of course the numbers will go up when attitudes become more relaxed prematurely, in essence they are ruining all the good that we have done in the past 2 months of personal sacrifice and hardship.

You could get a book, a puzzle, or a lacrosse stick with no problems throughout the lockdown.

Numbers are going up and down. You have to look at a whole week and consider numbers of ICU beds used and deaths.

Six days ago it was over 400. The last two days it was something like 115 and 188. Yet, the number was still in the 3 to 4 positive cases.

I think they're trying to reduce the positive cases, by reducing the number of tests.

The number of "active cases" dropped by about 5,000 overnight earlier in the week. I guess that, just like Trump said, one day it will just magically go away.....Maybe they all just got better.

(Check the graph on the worldometers, Florida, for "active cases)