Updated COVID-19 county death tolls are released

Florida reported 2,000 COVID-19 cases and two new deaths on Monday, according to Tuesday’s report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based on Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,652,637 confirmed COVID cases and 59,499 deaths.

In the past seven days, on average, the state added 81 deaths and 1,619 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

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.

As of Friday’s Community Profile Report, Florida had a death rate of 277 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic. Two weeks ago, the state had a death rate of 269 deaths per 100,000 people.

Here’s where death tolls and rates stand in South Florida, according to the CDC.

Miami-Dade County’s

death toll sits at 8,946, an increase of 70 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 329 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

Broward County’s

death toll sits at 4,806, an increase of 24 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report. That’s a rate of 246 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people.

Palm Beach County’s

death toll sits at 4,168, an increase of 26 deaths from the CDC’s Thursday report.

That’s a rate of 278 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people.

Monroe County’s

death toll sits at 94, an increase of one death from the CDC’s Thursday report. The county would be at a death rate of 127 deaths per 100,000 people if its population were that large.

About 12,850,223 eligible people in Florida — 59.8% of the state’s population — are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.

In Miami-Dade County, about 2,061,562 people, or 75.9% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.

In Broward County,

about 1,243,698 (63.7%).

In Palm Beach County, about 901,546 (60.2%).

In Monroe County,

about 52,216 (70.3%).

There were 1,901 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Tuesday report by the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services, which compiled data from 233 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients dropped by 64 from Monday’s report, when 258 hospitals submitted data. This continues a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.

COVID-19 patients take up 3.51% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 3.46% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 482 people were in ICUs, an increase of two. That represents about 7.74% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 7.94% the previous day.

Tuesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 230 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Monday, an increase of 62 from the previous day’s report. Of the 23 new COVID patients, 20 (86.96%) had not been vaccinated.

Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 239 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, an increase of 37 from the previous day’s report.