Florida COVID update: Here are the state’s newest cases, deaths and hospitalizations
Florida on Wednesday reported 3,931 COVID-19 cases and no 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 149 deaths and 4,382 cases per day, on average, according to Herald calculations. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,794,256 confirmed COVID cases and 68,955 deaths.
FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES
About 14,140,275 eligible Floridians — 65.8% 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 2,264,960 people are fully vaccinated, or 83.4% of the county’s total population.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,371,233 people are fully vaccinated, or 70.2% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 977,043 people are fully vaccinated, or 65.3% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 57,453 people are fully vaccinated, or 77.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 245,100 people are fully vaccinated, or 60.8% of the county’s population.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida
There were 3,814 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 233 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 127 less than the day prior.
COVID-19 patients take up 6.61% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 6.97% 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, 636 were in intensive-care units, a decrease of 11 from Tuesday. That represents about 9.94% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 10.22% the previous day.
Wednesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 193 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Tuesday, a decrease of six from the previous day. Of the 26 new COVID patients, 20 (76.92%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 53, holding steady from yesterday.
Broward County’s Wednesday report said there were 210 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 16 patients compared to the day before.
This story was originally published February 23, 2022 at 1:56 PM.
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