Florida sees nearly 75,000 more people vaccinated as 16,347 new cases are reported
Florida’s Department of Health on Friday confirmed 16,347 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 1,548,067. Also, 186 new resident deaths were announced, bringing the state’s resident death toll from the novel coronavirus to 23,799.
There were seven new non-resident deaths, raising the non-resident toll to 370.
The Sunshine State has a total of 24,169 deaths, making it the fourth-highest death toll in the country, after New York, California and Texas, according to The New York Times.
According to the state’s Friday COVID-19 vaccine report, 849,317 people have been vaccinated in Florida, an increase of 74,849 people from Thursday — with 79,552 people completing the series of two doses of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.
Miami-Dade County
● reported 2,685 additional cases of COVID-19 and 28 new deaths, according to Florida’s Department of
Health. The county has now had 339,434 confirmed cases and 4,528 deaths. The positivity for new cases (people who tested positive for the first time) increased from
8.93% to 8.94%. The 14day positivity was at 10.05%, down from 10.10%, according to Miami-Dade’s Moving to a New Normal Dashboard.
Broward County
● reported 1,386 additional cases and 10 new deaths. The county’s known total is now at 156,452 cases and 1,955 deaths. The positivity for new cases increased from 7.50% to 8.61%.
Palm Beach County
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saw 1,213 additional cases and nine new deaths. The county has 96,085 confirmed cases and 2,018 deaths. The positivity for new cases increased from 6.32% to 9.69%.
Monroe County confirmed
● 65 additional cases and no new deaths. The county has a known total of 4,884 cases and 37 deaths. The positivity for new cases increased from
7.08% to 10.24%.
On Friday, Florida’s Department of Health reported the results of 191,628 people tested on Thursday. The positivity rate of new cases increased from 8.63% to 10.17%.
As of 5:01 p.m. Friday, there were 7,528
COVID-19 patients admitted into hospitals throughout the state, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration dashboard. This number is higher than August levels, when more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients were admitted into hospitals throughout the state.
Of Friday’s hospitalizations, 633 were in Broward, 412 in Palm Beach and two in Monroe, according to the agency.
On Friday, Miami-Dade hospitalizations for COVID-19 complications increased from 1,163 to
1,180, according to the county’s dashboard. According to Friday’s data, 160 people were discharged and 135 people were admitted.
The state has had a total of 67,463 Florida residents hospitalized for COVID-19related complications, according to Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard.