Florida COVID update: 854 newly reported deaths, and the latest on hospitalizations
Florida on Thursday reported 9,881 COVID-19 cases and 854 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 have their totals changed. In August, Florida began reporting cases and deaths by the “case date” and “death date” rather than the time they were logged into the system.
Of the deaths added, about 96% occurred in the past 28 days and about 58% in the last two weeks, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 190 deaths and 18,957 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,723,066 confirmed COVID cases and 67,322 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 14,059,401 eligible Floridians — 65.5% 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 2,250,594 people, or 82.8% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,363,511 people are fully vaccinated, or 69.8% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 972,454 people are fully vaccinated, or 65% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 56,962 people are fully vaccinated, or 76.7% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 243,996 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.5% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 6,741 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services report on Thursday. This data is reported from 258 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 388 fewer than the day prior, when 235 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 11.39% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 12.67% among the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Hospitalizations during omicron’s wave have not approached records set amid 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, 1,045 were in intensive-care units, a decrease of 84 from Wednesday. That represents about 16.17% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 17.36% the previous day.
Thursday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 454 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Wednesday, a decrease of 95 from the previous day. Of the 58 new COVID patients, 34 (58.62%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 108, decreased by 11 from a day earlier.
Broward County’s Thursday report said there were 403 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 21 compared to the day before.
This story was originally published February 10, 2022 at 1:02 PM with the headline "Florida COVID update: 854 newly reported deaths, and the latest on hospitalizations."
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