Florida COVID update: Biggest jump in cases since September, with 6,381 added
Florida on Thursday reported 117 more deaths and 6,381 additional COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
This is the largest multi-day increase of newly reported cases since Sept. 6, which saw 46,105. The CDC backlogs cases and deaths for Florida on Mondays and Thursdays, sometimes leading to big increases.
All but three of the newly reported deaths — about 97% — occurred since Nov. 18, according to the Herald analysis. About 63% of the newly reported have died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,730,654 confirmed COVID cases and 62,191 deaths.
In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 26 deaths and 3,207 cases per day on average, 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 289 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic. Two weeks ago, the state had a death rate of 287 deaths per 100,000 people.
Here’s where death rates and tolls stand in South Florida and Manatee County, according to the CDC.
▪ Miami-Dade County’s death toll sits at 9,208, an increase of 21 deaths from the CDC’s Dec. 9 report. That’s a rate of 339 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
▪ Broward County’s death toll sits at 4,957, an increase of 22 deaths. That’s a rate of 254 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
▪ Palm Beach County’s death toll sits at 4,317, an increase of 22 deaths. That’s a rate of 288 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
▪ Monroe County’s death toll still sits at 98, no increase. The county would be at a death rate of 132 deaths per 100,000 people if its population were that large.
▪ Manatee County’s death toll sits at 1,220, an increase of one. Manatee has a rate of 303 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,460,713 eligible Floridians — 62.7% 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 2,160,928 people, or 79.5% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,306,132 people are fully vaccinated, or 66.9% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 938,562 people are fully vaccinated, or 62.7% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 54,872 people are fully vaccinated, or 73.9% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 235,582 people are fully vaccinated, or 58.4% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 1,556 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thursday report. This data is reported from 256 Florida hospitals. That is eight fewer people than in Wednesday’s report, when 235 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.7% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.87% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 290 were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of one. That represents about 4.7% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.7% the previous day.
The Miami-Dade County report no longer includes hospitalization information, but Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the county will again be having hospitals report information.
Broward County’s Thursday report said there were 145 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, an increase of 25 from the previous day’s report.
This story was originally published December 16, 2021 at 2:21 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: Biggest jump in cases since September, with 6,381 added."
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