Florida COVID update: Seven-day death average is the highest recorded since October
Florida on Monday reported 34,204 COVID-19 cases and 618 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 63% in the last two weeks, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 180 deaths, on average, the highest recorded since mid-October, according to Herald calculations. In the past seven days, the state has also added 26,854 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,535,803 confirmed COVID cases and 65,265 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,981,450 eligible Floridians — 65.1% 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 2,237,781 people, or 82.4% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,354,815 people are fully vaccinated, or 69.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 966,986 people are fully vaccinated, or 64.6% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 56,692 people are fully vaccinated, or 76.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 242,975 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.3% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 9,015 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 259 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 425 less than the day prior, when 261 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 15.8% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 16.2% among the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Hospitalizations during omicron’s wave have not approached records set during delta’s surge last summer. At delta’s August peak, more than 15,000 patients were hospitalized across the state, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 1,346 were in intensive-care units, a decrease of 99 from Sunday. That represents about 21.87% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 22.70% the previous day.
Monday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 898 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Sunday, an increase of 72 from the previous day. Of the 72 new COVID patients, 53 (73.61%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 176, the same as on Saturday.
Broward County’s Monday report said there were 619 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 129 patients compared to the day before.
Miami Herald staff reporter Carli Teproff contributed to this report.
This story was originally published January 31, 2022 at 7:07 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: Seven-day death average is the highest recorded since October."
