Florida COVID update: State sees 720 new deaths, and the latest on hospitalizations
Florida on Thursday reported 17,612 COVID-19 cases and 720 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 99% occurred in the past 28 days and about 68% in the last two weeks, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 194 deaths, on average, the highest recorded since mid-October, according to Herald calculations. In the past seven days, the state has also added 20,297 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,590,369 confirmed COVID cases and 65,993 deaths.
State and county vaccination figures were not available from the CDC as of 7:30 p.m. Thursday night.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 8,479 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services report on Wednesday. This data is reported from 260 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 319 less than the day prior, when 233 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 14.3% 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, 1,299 were in intensive-care units, a decrease of 20 from Tuesday. That represents about 20.04% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 20.49% the previous day.
Thursday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 730 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Tuesday, a decrease of 69 from the previous day. Of the 102 new COVID patients, 67 (65.69%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 158, decreased by 20 from a day earlier.
Broward County’s Thursday report said there were 516 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 37 patients compared to the day before.
This story was originally published February 3, 2022 at 1:33 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: State sees 720 new deaths, and the latest on hospitalizations."
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