Testing and the positivity rate

That’s 29 more than the toll reported on Saturday.

Florida says it has tested more than 3 million people since the pandemic began, and 11.64% have been positive.

That’s the third-highest number of COVID-19 tests in the nation, behind California and New York. Those states also are ahead of Florida in confirmed cases.

Florida on Sunday reported an 11.85% positivity rate for tests statewide in the previous 24-hour period, down from Saturday’s 12.2%.

It was 20.5% for MiamiDade County, 12.8% for Broward, and 11.4% for Palm Beach.

In May, Florida’s positivity rate was around 5% for COVID-19 testing.

Deaths

Statewide: The official COVID-19 death total for Florida stood at 5,091 on Sunday. That figure includes 109 non-residents. The three big South Florida counties have had 2,528 total deaths, which is 49.6% of the statewide total.

Nationwide: Florida’s death rate is hovering in the middle when you consider deaths per 100,000 people around the country. According to the COVID Data

Tracker from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida has recorded 22.6 deaths per 100,000 people.

Based on the same scale, California has had 18.9 deaths and Texas has had 13 deaths per 100,000 people, the Data Tracker shows. The death toll is much higher in New York City with 278.5 deaths for 100,000; New Jersey with 176.1 deaths per 100,000; Massachusetts with 121.7 deaths per 100,000; and Louisiana at 75.3 deaths per 100,000.

Senior care: At least 2,370 deaths have occurred in nursing homes and longterm care facilities, a figure that represents 46.6% of the state’s total for coronavirus deaths of residents. MiamiDade County has the highest number of long-term care facility deaths, with 575, or 24% of the total. Palm Beach County had 280 deaths, or 12%, and Broward accounted for 175 deaths or 7%.

Hospitalizations

The number of people being treated for COVID-19 at hospitals increased by 219 on Sunday, according to the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration. The total is 9,351 patients statewide as of 1 p.m. About 24 hours earlier, the same report listed 9,132 patients.

Miami-Dade County has the most people hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of the new coronavirus: 2,008, an increase of 39 since Saturday. Next is Broward with 1,240, another 17 since Saturday. Palm Beach County has 606 people who were admitted to hospitals to treat the disease, an increase of 22 from the previous day.

The state also reported that 20,971 Florida residents have been hospitalized since the start of the pandemic.

Global view

U.S.: The coronavirus death toll in the United States reached 140,131 as of 10:35 a.m. Sunday, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins University.

The United States reported more than 3.7 million cases, the highest total in the world.

Death tolls are the highest in New York State, with 32,478, and New Jersey, with 15,699. Most of those fatalities occurred in the first few months of the pandemic. New York and New Jersey each both reported an additional 15 deaths.

Worldwide: The global total reached 14.3 million cases Sunday, with at least 602,886 deaths, Johns Hopkins reported.

The U.S. has 4.3% of the world’s population and 26% of the world’s cases.