Florida COVID update: State sees 598 newly reported deaths, as hospital patients decline
Florida on Thursday reported 3,401 COVID-19 cases and 598 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 76% occurred in the past 28 days and about 54% in the last two weeks, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 140 deaths and 3,963 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,797,657 confirmed COVID cases and 69,553 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 2,264,980 people, or 83.4% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
▪ In Broward County, about 1,371,251 people are fully vaccinated, or 70.2% of the county’s population.
▪ In Palm Beach County, about 977,057 people are fully vaccinated, or 65.3% of the county’s population.
▪ In Monroe County, about 57,454 people are fully vaccinated, or 77.4% of the county’s population.
▪ In Manatee County, about 245,101 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 Thursday. This data is reported from 258 Florida hospitals. The number of people hospitalized across the state is 240 less than the day prior, when 233 hospitals reported.
COVID-19 patients take up 6.01% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 6.61% 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 decease of 24 from Thursday. That represents about 9.51% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 9.94% the previous day.
Thursday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 193 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Tuesday, a decrease of 24 from the previous day. Of the 43 new COVID patients, 28 (65.12%) had not been vaccinated. Intensive care patients numbered 53, holding steady from yesterday.
Broward County’s Thursday report said there were 193 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 17 patients compared to the day before.
This story was originally published February 24, 2022 at 4:17 PM.
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