Florida COVID update: 235 deaths, nearly half in the past 2 weeks, and 1,333 cases added
Florida on Friday reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1,333 COVID-19 cases and 235 deaths, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,677,967 confirmed COVID cases and 61,081 deaths.
Of the deaths added Friday, about 83% occurred over the past 28 days and about 48% in the last two weeks, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 55 deaths and 1,413 cases per day, on average, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,052,927 eligible people in Florida — 60.8% 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 2,098,784 people, or 77.2% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,262,501 people are fully vaccinated, or 64.7% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 913,863 people are fully vaccinated, or 61.1% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 52,894 people are fully vaccinated, or 71.3% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 229,275 people are fully vaccinated, or 56.9% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 1,383 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Friday report. This data is reported from 257 Florida hospitals. That is five fewer people than in Thursday’s report, continuing a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.39% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.43% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 264 were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 38. That represents about 4.63% of the state’s ICU hospital beds compared to 4.86% the previous day.
Friday’s Miami-Dade County report did not include hospitalization information.
Broward County’s Friday report said there were 122 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 10 from the previous day’s report.
Miami Herald staff writer Carli Teproff contributed to this report.
This story was originally published November 19, 2021 at 2:02 PM.
