Florida COVID update: Highest seven-day average for deaths since November
Florida on Monday reported 44,010 COVID-19 cases and 426 new deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
The CDC backlogs cases and deaths for Florida on Mondays and Thursdays, when multiple days in the past had their totals changed. In August, Florida began reporting cases and deaths by the “case date” and “death date” rather than the date they were logged into the system.
Of the deaths added, about 98% occurred in the past 28 days and about 69% in the last two weeks, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 130 deaths, the highest seven-day death average since Nov. 11, according to Herald calculations of CDC data. In the past seven days, the state has added 43,701 cases per day, on average. In all, Florida has recorded at least 5,347,828 confirmed COVID cases and 64,002 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,920,775 eligible Floridians — 64.8% 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, 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 2,227,194 people, or 82% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,348,729 people are fully vaccinated, or 69.1% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 963,258 people are fully vaccinated, or 64.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 56,493 people are fully vaccinated, or 76.1% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 242,124 people are fully vaccinated, or 60% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 10,794 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services report on Monday. This data is reported from 247 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 158 more than the day prior, when 250 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 19.18% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 18.99% among Monday’s reporting hospitals.
Omicron, so far, is not as deadly as delta’s surge last summer. Hospitalizations have not approached records set during delta’s wave from July through September.
At delta’s August peak, more than 15,000 patients were hospitalized in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 1,566 were in intensive-care units, an increase of 85 from Monday. That represents about 25.5% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 24.91% the previous day.
Monday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 1,219 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Sunday, a decrease of 28 from the previous day. Of the 91 new COVID patients, 64 (70.33%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 223, decreased by 16 from a day earlier.
Broward County’s Monday report said there were 913 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 162 patients compared to the day before.
Miami Herald staff writer Carli Teproff contributed to this report.
This story was originally published January 24, 2022 at 2:20 PM.
