Florida COVID update: 3,067 new cases added to state tally
Florida reported 3,067 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 deaths to Monday’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 3,720,146 confirmed COVID cases and 62,073 deaths.
In the past seven days, the state has added 41 deaths and 2,350 cases per day, on average, according to Herald calculations of CDC data. The 7-day case average is the highest since Oct. 21.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,427,577 eligible Floridians — 62.5% 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 2,155,626 people, or 79.3% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,301,611 people are fully vaccinated, or 66.7% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 936,351 people are fully vaccinated, or 62.6% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 54,777 people are fully vaccinated, or 73.8% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 235,090 people are fully vaccinated, or 58.3% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 1,411 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Tuesday report. This data is reported from 234 Florida hospitals. That is eight more people than in Monday’s report, when 258 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.61% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.48% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 296 were in intensive care unit beds, an increase of five. That represents about 4.76% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.69% the previous day.
The Miami-Dade County report no longer includes hospitalization information.
Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 121 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of eight from the previous day’s report.
Correction: This story was updated to reflect Florida’s current death toll of 62,073.
This story was originally published December 14, 2021 at 3:43 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: 3,067 new cases added to state tally."
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