Florida COVID update: 1,610 more cases added to state tally, hospital patients declining
Florida reported 1,610 COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Friday, according to Saturday’s report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
The Florida Department of Health will most likely add more deaths to Friday’s total, increasing it from zero. The state has done this in the past when it has added cases and deaths to previous days during the pandemic.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,659,255 confirmed COVID cases and 60,197 deaths.
In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 100 deaths and 1,473 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
Florida COVID-19 Hospitalizations
There were 1,658 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Saturday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 256 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients dropped by 74 from Friday’s report, when 258 hospitals submitted data. This continues a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.87% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.98% in the previous day’s reporting.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 404 people were in intensive-care beds, a decrease of 21. That represents about 6.51% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 6.76% the previous day.
This story was originally published November 6, 2021 at 2:16 PM.
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