Florida adds 13,800 cases, the most since July
Florida’s Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed 13,871 additional cases of COVID-19, the most reported since July. The state has now confirmed a total of 1,306,123 cases.
Also, 137 new resident deaths were announced, bringing the resident toll to 21,546. Two new nonresident deaths were also announced, bringing the non-resident toll to 311.
Wednesday’s single-day case count is the most recorded since July 16, when 13,965 cases were added. That is if you exclude Nov. 27 and Dec. 26, when the state reported more than 17,000 cases because no reports were issued on Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Following the highest spike in coronavirus percent positivity reaching the state’s peak, positivity plummeted to 8.72% from 22.81%, returning to the two-week trend of daily positivity ranging from 8.03% to 11.11%.
This in part has to do with 180,183 people being tested Tuesday, which is nearly triple the number tested when the spike occurred, and comes in as the second-highest day of testing in the last two weeks.
If retests are included, the positivity rate decreased from 26.32% to 10.03%.
This sudden drop in positivity and increase in testing also occurred in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, lowering the counties’ percent positivities as well.
Miami-Dade County reported 2,748 additional cases and five new deaths, according to Florida’s Department of Health. The county has had 295,936 confirmed cases and 4,169 deaths. The positivity for new cases (people who tested positive for the first time) decreased from 24.04% to 6.95%. The 14-day positivity is at 9.60%, according to Mia
mi-Dade’s Moving to a New Normal Dashboard.
Broward County
● reported 1,456 additional cases and 10 new deaths. The county’s known total is at 136,038 cases and 1,840 deaths. The positivity for new cases decreased from 24.22% to
6.56%.
Palm Beach County
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saw 509 additional cases and eight new deaths. The county has 81,899 confirmed cases and 1,881 deaths. The positivity for new cases decreased from 19.62% to 6.95%.
Monroe County con
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firmed 15 additional cases and no new deaths. The county has a known total of 4,197 cases and 35 deaths. The positivity for new cases decreased from 9.60% to 3.38%.
As of 2:47 p.m. Wednesday, there were 6,298 COVID-19 patients admitted into hospitals throughout the state, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration dashboard. This number is at midAugust levels, when more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients were admitted into hospitals throughout the state.
Of Wednesday’s hospitalizations, 579 were in Broward, 357 in Palm Beach and three in Monroe, according to the agency.
Miami-Dade hospitalizations increased from 1,072 to 1,078, according to the county’s dashboard. According to Wednesday’s data, 170 people were discharged and 137 people were admitted.
The state has had a total of 62,508 Florida residents hospitalized for COVID-19-related complications, according to Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard.