Florida COVID update: 562 deaths added to state tally along with 2,021 new cases
Florida on Thursday reported 562 more deaths and 2,021 additional COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
All but 219 of the newly reported deaths — about 61% — occurred since Sept. 30, according to the Herald analysis. About 33% of the newly reported have died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,645,212 confirmed COVID cases and 59,495 deaths.
In the past seven days, the state has added, on average, 127 deaths and 1,731 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 12,793,276 eligible Floridians — 59.6% of the state’s population — have 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
Here’s how many people have been fully vaccinated in South Florida and Manatee County, according to the CDC.
▪ In Miami-Dade County, about 2,051,526 people, or 75.5% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,238,227 people are fully vaccinated, or 63.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 898,061 people are fully vaccinated, or 60% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 51,939 people are fully vaccinated, or 70% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 223,730 people are fully vaccinated, or 55.5% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 2,209 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Thursday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 260 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients dropped by 45 from Tuesday’s report, when 234 hospitals submitted data. This continues a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.
COVID-19 patients take up 3.80% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 4.13% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 565 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 14. That represents about 9.01% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 9.27% the previous day.
Thursday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 196 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Wednesday, a decrease of 35 from the previous day’s report. Of the 24 new COVID patients, 20 (83.33%) had not been vaccinated.
Broward County’s Thursday report said there were 227 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 17 from the previous day’s report.
This story was originally published October 28, 2021 at 1:33 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: 562 deaths added to state tally along with 2,021 new cases."
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