Florida COVID update: The latest on cases, deaths and hospitalizations
Florida on Monday reported 9,333 COVID-19 cases and 582 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 date they were logged into the system.
Of the deaths added, about 56% occurred in the past two weeks and about 98% in the past 28 days, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 207 deaths and 10,021 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,751,104 confirmed COVID cases and 67,910 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 14,085,719 eligible Floridians — 65.6% 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 2,254,817 people, or 83% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,366,232 people are fully vaccinated, or 70% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 974,093 people are fully vaccinated, or 65.1% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 57,080 people are fully vaccinated, or 76.9% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 244,369 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.6% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 5,502 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 255 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 259 less than the day prior, when 257 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 9.71% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 9.92% 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, 882 were in intensive-care units, a decease of 38 from Sunday. That represents about 14.47% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 14.38% the previous day.
Monday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 390 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Sunday, an increase of 201 from the previous day. Of the 36 new COVID patients, 27 (75%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 88, increased by 51 from a day earlier.
Broward County’s Monday report said there were 364 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 34 patients compared to the day before.
Miami Herald staff writer Carli Teproff contributed to this report.
This story was originally published February 14, 2022 at 1:45 PM.
