Former Broward state attorney dies at 82
Phil Shailer, a former Broward County state attorney, public defender and Fort Lauderdale city attorney, has died, according to his family.
Shailer’s daughter Leslie Shailer Curley confirmed her father’s passing to the South Florida Sun Sentinel Sunday. He lived with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, commonly referred to as COPD, for years and died peacefully Saturday in his Hollywood home surrounded by family. He was 82.
“He knew how to be the father that each of us needed,” Shailer Curley said. “He wasn’t a static father with all of us. He knew we were all independent souls needing different things, kind of like in his professional life, it was the same kind of thing. He treated us with the respect and kindness and love and education that we needed from him.”
Over the course of his long career in public service, Shailer worked as an assistant public defender in Broward County, city attorney for Fort Lauderdale, Broward County State Attorney and served on an oversight committee at the State Attorney’s Office.
day, or 40.3% of the daily total for the state.
Broward County: 223 new coronavirus cases were reported Monday, bringing the total to 69,383. The median age of Florida residents infected in the county is 39. A total of 1,132 people in Broward have died from the virus, 19 more than reported Sunday. That number includes 26 non-resident deaths.
Miami-Dade County: 520 new cases were reported on Sunday, bringing the total to 152,612. The median age of those infected in the county is 43. A total of 2,253 people in Miami-Dade have died from the virus. That’s 10 more than reported Sunday.
Palm Beach County: 162 new cases were reported Monday, bringing the total to 40,746. The median age of those infected in the county is 41. A total of 1,061 people have died. Two new deaths were reported on Sunday.
Testing and positivity rate
More than 4.45 million people have been swabbed in Florida since the pandemic began, producing an overall positivity rate of 13.53%.
The state reports that 602,829 people have tested positive, and more than 3.8 million people have tested negative.
In South Florida, the overall positivity rates are 19.49% for Miami-Dade County, 14.3% for Broward, and 13.16% for Palm Beach County.
The daily positivity rates are much lower: 9.13% for MiamiDade County, 4.34% for Broward, and 5.34% for Palm Beach County.
Hospitalizations
Across the state, 4,649 people were hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19 as of 1 p.m. Monday, an increase of 70 from the same time a day earlier. The state’s online report updates several times throughout the day.
The number of people in hospitals for COVID-19 overall has been declining all month as has the number of people in intensive care units. The total number of people hospitalized for the disease two weeks ago was about 6,900. Four weeks ago, it was about 9,000.
At a news briefing Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida has the lowest number of new COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals over than weekend since June 18, “and the weekends are usually a high time.” He also said the number of people visiting hospitals with COVID-like illness has dropped 75% since the state’s peak on July 9. “I expect it to continue to go down,” he said.
South Florida: 1,742 people were hospitalized as of Sunday afternoon. Broward County reported 603, Palm Beach County had 237, and Miami-Dade had 902, the most in the state.
These figures also represent declines. One week ago, Broward County hospitals had 742 patients with the virus, Palm Beach County had 360 and MiamiDade had 1,139, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration.
A different report, from the state health department, shows 36,596 Florida residents have been hospitalized since the start of the pandemic.
Deaths
Statewide: The official COVID-19 report, updated Sunday,
shows 10,397 Florida resident deaths. Another 137 nonresidents also died in Florida. The number of new deaths has been declining since mid-July.
COVID-19 is the state’s deadliest infectious disease. Throughout 2019, there were 2,703 deaths attributed to the flu and pneumonia in Florida, records show.
Seniors: At least 4,384 deaths have occurred among residents and staff of nursing homes and long-term care facilities, a figure that represents 41.55% of the state total for coronavirus deaths of residents.
Miami-Dade County has the highest number of deaths at the facilities, with 674, or 15% of the total. Palm Beach County has had 448 deaths, or 10%, and Broward accounted for 341 deaths, or 8%.
Nationwide: Florida’s death rate ranks 16th in the United States when compared with other states and the District of Columbia, with 48 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID Data Tracker.
Global view
Worldwide: The novel coronavirus has infected nearly 24 million people and killed at least 809,824 worldwide as of Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center.
U.S.: The United States has 5.7 million cases, the highest total in the world, with at least 176,927 deaths, the most fatalities of any country. The U.S. has 4.3% of the world’s population, but 24.4% of the world’s cases and 21.9% of the world’s deaths.