Florida COVID update: Here’s the latest on cases, deaths and hospitalizations
Florida on Tuesday reported 19,306 COVID-19 cases and two 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 171 deaths and 20,627 cases per day, on average, according to Herald calculations. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,700,264 confirmed COVID cases and 66,465 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 14,044,921 eligible Floridians — 65.4% 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 2,248,336 people, or 82.8% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,361,947 people are fully vaccinated, or 69.7% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 971,201 people are fully vaccinated, or 64.9% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 56,915 people are fully vaccinated, or 76.7% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 243,815 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.5% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 7,420 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 104 more than the day prior, when 258 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 13.39% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 12.75% 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, 1,151 were in intensive-care units, a decrease of 23 from Monday. That represents about 18.00% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 18.65% the previous day.
Tuesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 486 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Monday, a decrease of 134 from the previous day. Of the 72 new COVID patients, 48 (66.66%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 106, decreased by 28 from a day earlier.
Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 446 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 15 compared to the day before.
This story was originally published February 8, 2022 at 1:56 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: Here’s the latest on cases, deaths and hospitalizations."
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