Florida COVID update: Newly reported cases and deaths, and latest on hospital patients
Florida on Wednesday reported 6,458 COVID-19 cases and three 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 207 deaths and 7,199 cases per day, on average, according to Herald calculations. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,763,580 confirmed COVID cases and 67,914 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 14,095,474 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 2,256,895 people, or 83.1% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,367,295 people are fully vaccinated, or 70% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 974,660 people are fully vaccinated, or 65.1% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 57,099 people are fully vaccinated, or 76.9% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 244,501 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.6% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 5,208 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 237 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 128 less than the day prior, when 234 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 9.26% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 9.73% 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, 862 were in intensive-care units, a decrease of 16 from Tuesday. That represents about 13.35% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 14.15% the previous day.
Wednesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 327 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Tuesday, a decrease of 33 from the previous day. Of the 43 new COVID patients, 32 (74.42%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 79, decreased by three from a day earlier.
Broward County’s Wednesday report said there were 301 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 51 patients compared to the day before.
This story was originally published February 16, 2022 at 2:09 PM.
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