Data is the key to Florida’s reopening. Here’s a guide to the coronavirus statistics that matter most

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.