Florida COVID update: 3,782 more cases added, hospitalizations continue trending down
Florida on Wednesday reported 3,782 more COVID-19 cases and three deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,594,182 confirmed COVID cases and 55,625 deaths since the pandemic began.
In the past seven days the state has added, on average, 222 deaths and 4,030 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
Florida COVID-19 Vaccine Rate
About 12,441,401 eligible Floridians — 57.9% of the state’s population — had completed the two-dose series of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or have completed Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Vaccinations in South Florida and Manatee County
The CDC still reported that every Florida county’s level of community transmission remains high. Here’s how many people have been fully vaccinated in South Florida, according to the CDC.
▪ In Miami-Dade County, about 1,987,100 people, or 73.1% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,203,209 people are fully vaccinated, or 61.6% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 876,544 people are fully vaccinated, or 58.6% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 50,553 people are fully vaccinated, or 68.1% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 217,551 people are fully vaccinated, or 53.9% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 4,568 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Wednesday report. This data is reported from 234 Florida hospitals. That is 279 fewer patients than Tuesday’s report, but also from two more hospitals than the 232 that reported then. This continues a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.
COVID-19 patients take up 8.45% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 8.55% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 1,200 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 35. That represents about 18.66% of the state’s ICU hospital beds compared to 19.30% the previous day.
Wednesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 402 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Tuesday, a decrease of 20 from the previous day’s report. Of the 47 new COVID patients, 36 (76.60%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 133, remaining the same from the previous day.
Broward County’s Wednesday report said there were 405 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 57 from Tuesday’s patient population.
This story was originally published October 6, 2021 at 1:14 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: 3,782 more cases added, hospitalizations continue trending down."
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