Florida COVID update: State surpasses 60,000 deaths, as 698 are added to toll
Florida on Friday surpassed 60,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, as 698 more deaths and 1,635 additional COVID-19 cases were reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
All but 343 of the newly reported deaths occurred since Oct. 8, according to the Herald analysis; 24% of the newly reported cases are people who have died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed.
The CDC usually publishes a new set of data provided by the Florida Department of Health on Mondays and Thursdays, but did not on either day this week. Instead, the new set of data appeared Friday.
The CDC told the Herald it was working with the Department of Health to return to an older reporting method, which caused a lag in the reporting of deaths this week.
Throughout the pandemic, the CDC was reporting deaths in Florida by date of report. Then, on Aug. 10 amid a surge due to the delta variant, the DOH began providing a new set of data biweekly to the CDC, which reported deaths by date of occurrence.
On Friday, Florida continued reporting deaths by date of occurrence and not by report date, which the CDC said it is transitioning to.
The CDC and DOH did not immediately respond to requests from the Herald.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,657,645 confirmed COVID cases and 60,197 deaths.
In the past seven days, the state has added, on average, 100 deaths and 1,488 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 12,882,180 eligible people in Florida — 60% 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 2,067,628 people, or 76.1% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,246,445 people are fully vaccinated, or 63.8% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 903,308 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 52,317 people are fully vaccinated, or 70.5% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 225,127 people are fully vaccinated, or 55.8% of the county’s population.
Florida COVID-19 Hospitalizations
There were 1,732 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Friday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 258 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients dropped by 93 from Thursday’s report, when 251 hospitals submitted data. This continues a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.98% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 3.20% in the previous day’s reporting.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 425 people were in intensive-care beds, a decrease of 18. That represents about 6.76% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 7.25% the previous day.
Friday’s Miami-Dade County report did not include hospitalization information.
Broward County’s Friday report said there were 158 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 16 from the previous day’s report.
This story was originally published November 5, 2021 at 2:25 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: State surpasses 60,000 deaths, as 698 are added to toll."
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