Florida adds 1,523 COVID-19 cases

Florida reported 1,523 COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Tuesday, according to Wednesday’s report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

The Florida Department of Health will most likely add deaths to Tuesday’s total.

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,684,332 confirmed COVID cases and 61,147 deaths. In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 43 deaths and 1,393 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

About 13,100,793 eligible people in Florida — 61% of the state’s population — are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.

In Miami-Dade County, about 2,106,633 people, or 78% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.

In Broward County, about 1,267,079 (65%).

In Palm Beach County, about 916,857 (61%).

In Monroe County, about 53,089 (72%).

There were 1,406 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 232 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients increased by 24 from Tuesday’s report, when 235 hospitals submitted data.

COVID-19 patients take up 2.60% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.53% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 267 people were in ICUs, a decrease of 10. That represents about 4.30% of the state’s ICU beds, compared to 4.46% the previous day.

Wednesday’s MiamiDade County report did not include hospitalization information.

Broward County’s Wednesday report said there were 94 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, an increase of two from the previous day’s report.