Florida adds 235 COVID-19 deaths, nearly half in the past 2 weeks, and 1,333 daily cases
Florida on Friday reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1,333 COVID-19 cases and 235 deaths, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.
In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,677,967 confirmed COVID cases and 61,081 deaths.
Of the deaths added Friday, about 83% occurred over the past 28 days and about 48% in the last two weeks, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
In the past seven days, the state has added 55 deaths and 1,413 cases per day, on average, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.
About 13,052,927 eligible people in Florida — 60.8% of the state’s population — are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
In Miami-Dade County, about 2,098,784 people, or 77.2% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.
In Broward County, about 1,262,501 (64.7%).
In Palm Beach County, about 913,863 (61.1%).
In Monroe County, about 52,894 (71.3%).
There were 1,383 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Friday report. This data is reported from 257 Florida hospitals. That is five fewer people than in Thursday’s report, continuing a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.
COVID-19 patients take up 2.39% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.43% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.
Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 264 were in ICU beds, a decrease of 38. That represents about 4.63% of the state’s ICU beds compared to 4.86% the previous day.
Friday’s Miami-Dade County report did not include hospitalization information.
Broward County’s Friday report said there were 122 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, a decrease of 10 from the previous day’s report.