Florida COVID update: New death tolls in your county, and hospital patients up 2nd day
Florida reported 1,775 COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Monday, according to Tuesday’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 Monday’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 3,662,957 confirmed COVID cases and 60,418 deaths.
In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 131 deaths and 1,474 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
COVID deaths in South Florida and Manatee County
The CDC’s Community Profile Report released county-level death data for Florida’s 67 counties.
It is unclear when these newly reported deaths occurred. The Community Profile Report updates Florida’s county death tolls and rates about once every seven days, when or after the COVID-19 weekly situation report is published by the Florida Department of Health on Fridays.
As of Friday’s Community Profile Report, Florida had a death rate of 280 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic. Two weeks ago, the state had a death rate of 273 deaths per 100,000 people.
Here’s where death rates and tolls stand in South Florida and Manatee, according to the CDC.
▪ Miami-Dade County’s death toll sits at 9,019, an increase of 73 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 332 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
▪ Broward County’s death toll sits at 4,845, an increase of 39 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 248 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
▪ Palm Beach County’s death toll sits at 4,201, an increase of 33 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 281 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
▪ Monroe County’s death toll sits at 95, an increase of one death from the CDC’s Thursday report. The county would be at a death rate of 128 deaths per 100,000 people if its population were that large.
▪ Manatee County’s death toll sits at 1,222, an increase of 96 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 303 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 12,929,870 eligible people in Florida — 60.2% 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 2,075,462 people, or 76.4% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,250,590 people are fully vaccinated, or 64% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 906,168 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.5% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 52,484 people are fully vaccinated, or 70.7% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 227,373 people are fully vaccinated, or 56.4% of the county’s population.
Pediatric vaccines in Florida
As Florida begins to allow children ages 5 to 11 to receive vaccines, the state has begun ordering more vaccines.
The state ordered an initial supply of over 90,000 doses from the federal government for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which are expected to be delivered this week, the Florida Department of Health told the Herald.
These vaccines will be given to health care providers, including most retail pharmacies and county health departments to be administered widely this week.
The CDC estimates that 1.9 million children 5 to 11 years old have had a case of COVID-19 since the pandemic began in March 2020, including 8,300 who have been hospitalized and 94 who have died from the disease.
In Florida, the health department has confirmed 331,000 cases among children younger than 12. At least 29 children younger than 16 have died of COVID-19 in Florida.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 1,608 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Tuesday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 232 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients increased by 14 from Monday’s report, when 254 hospitals submitted data. Hospitalizations increased Monday as well.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.96% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.82% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 383 people were in intensive care unit beds, an increase of 28. That represents about 6.13% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 6.22% the previous day.
Tuesday’s Miami-Dade County report did not include hospitalization information.
Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 155 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of one from the previous day’s report.
This story was originally published November 9, 2021 at 1:58 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: New death tolls in your county, and hospital patients up 2nd day."
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