Florida COVID update: 1,523 new cases added to state tally, as hospital patients increase
Florida reported 1,523 COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Tuesday, according to Wednesday’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 deaths to Tuesday’s total. 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 3,684,332 confirmed COVID cases and 61,147 deaths.
In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 43 deaths and 1,393 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,100,793 eligible people in Florida — 61% 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 2,106,633 people, or 78% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,267,079 people are fully vaccinated, or 65% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 916,857 people are fully vaccinated, or 61% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 53,089 people are fully vaccinated, or 72% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 229,988 people are fully vaccinated, or 57% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 1,406 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Wednesday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 232 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients increased by 24 from Tuesday’s report, when 235 hospitals submitted data.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.60% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.53% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 267 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 10. That represents about 4.30% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.46% the previous day.
Wednesday’s Miami-Dade County report did not include hospitalization information.
Broward County’s Wednesday report said there were 94 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, an increase of two from the previous day’s report.
This story was originally published November 24, 2021 at 1:49 PM.
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