Florida COVID update: 1,694 cases added and fewer people in the hospital
Florida on Monday reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1,694 more COVID-19 cases and no new deaths as the global death toll topped five million, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
The Florida Department of Health usually backfills data on Mondays and Thursdays, but it’s unclear whether that occurred Monday since the death toll didn’t change. The health department did not immediately respond to a Miami Herald inquiry on the data.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,650,637 confirmed COVID cases and 59,497 deaths.
In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 81 deaths and 1,622 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
The global COVID-19 death toll on Monday topped five million in less than two years of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University. The death toll is about equal to the combined population of Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to The Associated Press. The U.S. alone has recorded more than 745,000 COVID deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 12,830,639 eligible people in Florida — 68.6% 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 2,060,275 people, or 75.8% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,242,887 people are fully vaccinated, or 63.6% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 901,071 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.2% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 52,192 people are fully vaccinated, or 70.3% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 224,555 people are fully vaccinated, or 55.7% of the county’s population.
Florida COVID-19 Hospitalizations
There were 1,965 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Monday report. This data is reported from 258 Florida hospitals. That is 34 fewer patients than Sunday’s report, continuing a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.
COVID-19 patients take up 3.46% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 3.52% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 480 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 25. That represents about 7.98% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 8.16% the previous day.
Monday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 168 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Sunday, a decrease of 39 from the previous day’s report. Of the 15 new COVID patients, 12 (80%) had not been vaccinated.
Broward County’s Monday report said there were 200 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 12 from the previous day’s report.
Miami Herald staff writer Carli Teproff contributed to this report.
This story was originally published November 1, 2021 at 2:27 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: 1,694 cases added and fewer people in the hospital."
