Wednesday Florida COVID update: Highest single-day case report since October
Florida reported 4,127 COVID-19 cases and one new death on Tuesday, according to Wednesday’s report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
That’s the most cases for a single day report since 4,797 on Oct. 10. Other days that were higher since then combined the reports from multiple days.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,724,273 confirmed COVID cases and 62,074 deaths.
In the past seven days, the state has added 41 deaths and 2,625 cases per day, on average, according to Herald calculations of CDC data. The seven-day case average is the highest since Oct. 15. It’s also the third consecutive day that the seven-day average has risen and exceeded the seven-day average of any day in November or December.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,445,468 eligible Floridians — 62.6% 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 2,158,473 people, or 79.4% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,304,373 people are fully vaccinated, or 66.8% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 937,519 people are fully vaccinated, or 62.6% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 54,822 people are fully vaccinated, or 73.9% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 235,376 people are fully vaccinated, or 58.4% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 1,564 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Wednesday report. This data is reported from 235 Florida hospitals. That is 153 more people than in Tuesday’s report, when 234 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.87% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.61% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 291 were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of five. That represents about 4.68% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.76% the previous day.
The Miami-Dade County report no longer includes hospitalization information.
Broward County’s Wednesday report said there were 120 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of one from the previous day’s report.
Miami Herald reporter Carli Teproff contributed to this report.
This story was originally published December 15, 2021 at 1:50 PM with the headline "Wednesday Florida COVID update: Highest single-day case report since October."
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