State reports 3,513 new COVID cases, 64 more deaths

Florida reported 3,513 new coronavirus cases on Monday and another 64 new resident deaths linked to COVID-19. The state has now reported 2,212,097 cases since the pandemic began.

South Florida

Palm Beach County: 189 additional cases and 9 more deaths. The county now has 141,747 confirmed cases and 2,803 deaths, including 52 non-residents.

Broward County: 459 additional cases and 3 more deaths. Broward has a known total of 233,624 cases and 2,916 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. The death tally includes 48 non-residents.

Miami-Dade County: 766 additional cases and 13 new deaths. The county now has 479,426 confirmed cases and 6,170 deaths, including 45 non-residents.

Testing and positivity

Public health experts say the virus is considered under control when the COVID-19 test positivity rate is under 5%. But since Oct. 29, Florida has exceeded 5% in its widely publicized calculation for assessing the rate for testing of residents.

The state reported a daily positivity rate of 7.28% on Monday, up from 6.85% the day before. This method of calculating positivity counts new infections only, but also counts repeat negative tests, which skews the figure downward.

According to the state, the new reported case numbers reflect the results of 49,885 COVID-19 tests of Florida residents received from labs in the past day, down from 68,891 results reported the day before.

Palm Beach County: Test results for 3,163 residents were reported Monday, leading to a daily positivity rate of 6.48%. That’s up from 6.24% the previous day.

Broward County: Test results for 6,643 residents were reported Monday, leading to a daily positivity rate of 7.21%. That’s up from 6.47% the previous day.

Miami-Dade County: Test results for 11,614 residents were reported Monday, leading to a daily positivity rate of 6.94%. That’s up from 5.93% the previous day.

Deaths

The state’s pandemic data report shows a total of 34,912 Floridians have died from COVID-19. In addition, 688 non-residents have died after contracting the virus. Most of the fatalities reported Monday happened over several weeks but were just confirmed in the past day.

Out of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Florida ranks No. 23 for deaths per 100K residents and No. 16 for cases per 100K residents, according to the latest data from the health department and the COVID Tracking Project.

Hospitalizations

As of Monday, there were 3,371 people hospitalized in Florida with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration.

In South Florida, Broward County reported 468, Palm Beach County had 210 and Miami-Dade had 557.

Hospitalizations hit a peak in late July of about 9,500 patients statewide.

Vaccines

More than 5.67 million people in Florida have received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine.

So far, 5,758,162 people have completed the series of doses required to be vaccinated. That represents about 26.81% of the population.