Florida adds 2,505 cases of COVID-19; new county death tolls are released

Florida on Wednesday reported 2,505 more COVID-19 cases and three deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data. Florida has recorded at least 3,614,272 confirmed COVID cases and 57,303 deaths since the pandemic began.

In the past seven days, the state has added, on average, 240 deaths and 2,870 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

DEATHS

The CDC’s Community Profile Report released county-level death data for Florida’s 67 counties.

It is unclear when these newly reported deaths occurred. The Community Profile Report updates Florida’s county death tolls and rates about once every seven days, on or after the COVID-19 weekly situation report is published by the Florida Department of Health on Fridays.

As of Tuesday’s Community Profile Report, Florida had a death rate of 267 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic. Two weeks ago, the state had a death rate of 252 deaths per 100,000 people.

Miami-Dade County’s death toll sits at 8,648, an increase of 144 deaths from the CDC’s last report. That’s a rate of 318 deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

Broward County’s

death toll sits at 4,614, an increase of 92 deaths from the CDC’s last report. That’s a rate of 236 deaths per 100,000 people.

Palm Beach County’s

death toll sits at 4,004, an increase of 71 deaths from the CDC’s last report. That’s a rate of 268 deaths per 100,000 people.

Monroe County’s death toll sits at 85, an increase of three deaths from the CDC’s last report. The county would be at a death rate of 115 deaths per 100,000 people if its population were that large.

VACCINATIONS

About 12,560,764 eligible Floridians — 58.5% of the state’s population — are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. The CDC reported that every Florida county’s level of community transmission was high.

In Miami-Dade, about 2,008,131 people, or 73.9% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.

In Broward, about 1,215,368 (62.2%).

In Palm Beach, about 883,967 (59.1%).

In Monroe, about 50,992 (68.7%).

HOSPITALIZATIONS

There were 3,460 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Wednesday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 233 Florida hospitals. The number of hospitalized COVID patients dropped by 133 from Tuesday’s report, when 234 hospitals submitted data. This continues a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.

COVID-19 patients take up 6.36% of all inpatient beds in the latest report, compared to 6.63% in Tuesday’s report.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 925 people were in ICUs, a decrease of 52. That represents about 14.53% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 15.47% from Tuesday’s report.

Wednesday’s MiamiDade County report said there were 371 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Tuesday, an increase of 39 from the previous day’s report. Of the 40 new COVID patients, 29 (72.5%) had not been vaccinated. ICU patients numbered 114, an increase of 17 from the previous day.

Broward County’s Wednesday report said there were 328 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 33 from the previous day’s report