Florida COVID update: Here’s a look at the latest in statewide hospitalizations
Florida on Tuesday reported 20,071 COVID-19 cases and six new deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 181 deaths, on average — the highest recorded since mid-October, according to Herald calculations. In the past seven days, the state has also added 24,683 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,555,874 confirmed COVID cases and 65,271 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 13,987,855 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 2,238,874 people, or 82.4% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,355,548 people are fully vaccinated, or 69.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 967,461 people are fully vaccinated, or 64.6% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 56,711 people are fully vaccinated, or 76.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 243,094 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.3% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 8,798 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services report on Tuesday. This data is reported from 232 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 217 less than the day prior, when 259 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 16.2% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 15.8% 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, 1,319 were in intensive-care units, a decrease of 27 from Monday. That represents about 21.22% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 21.87% the previous day.
Tuesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 819 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Monday, a decrease of 78 from the previous day. Of the 82 new COVID patients, 56 (68.29%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 164, decreased by 12 from a day earlier.
Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 607 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of seven patients compared to the day before.
Miami Herald staff writer Carli Teproff contributed to this report.
This story was originally published February 1, 2022 at 2:21 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: Here’s a look at the latest in statewide hospitalizations."
