Florida COVID update: 2,024 more cases added and county death tolls increase

Florida reported 2,024 COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Monday, according to Tuesday’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 more deaths to Monday’s total, increasing it from zero. The state has done this in the past when it has added cases and deaths to previous days during the pandemic.

The last time the state saw no increase in deaths consistently, without backlogged deaths added later, was in early March of last year during the nascent days of the pandemic, according to CDC data supplied by the state.

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,641,304 confirmed COVID cases and 58,933 deaths.

In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 113 deaths and 1,863 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

COVID Deaths in South Florida and Manatee County

The CDC’s Community Profile Report released county-level death data for Florida’s 67 counties.

It is unclear when these newly reported deaths occurred. The Community Profile Report updates Florida’s county death tolls and rates about once every seven days, when or after the COVID-19 weekly situation report is published by the Florida Department of Health on Fridays.

As of Friday’s Community Profile Report, Florida had a death rate of 273 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic. Two weeks ago, the state had a death rate of 263 deaths per 100,000 people.

Here’s where death rates and tolls stand in South Florida and Manatee, according to the CDC.

▪ Miami-Dade County’s death toll sits at 8,876, an increase of 108 deaths from the CDC’s last report. That’s a rate of 327 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Broward County’s death toll sits at 4,782, an increase of 84 deaths from the CDC’s last report. That’s a rate of 245 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Palm Beach County’s death toll sits at 4,142, an increase of 82 deaths from the CDC’s last report. That’s a rate of 277 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Monroe County’s death toll sits at 93, an increase of two deaths from the CDC’s last report. The county would be at a death rate of 125 deaths per 100,000 people if its population were that large.

▪ Manatee County’s death toll sits at 965, an increase of 35 deaths from the CDC’s last report. That’s a rate of 239 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES

About 12,764,431 eligible Floridians — 59.4% of the state’s population — have completed the two-dose series of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines or have completed Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

VACCINATIONS IN SOUTH FLORIDA AND MANATEE COUNTY

Here’s how many people have been fully vaccinated in South Florida and Manatee County, according to the CDC.

▪ In Miami-Dade County, about 2,045,375 people, or 75.3% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.

▪ In Broward County, about 1,235,437 people are fully vaccinated, or 63.3% of the county’s population.

▪ In Palm Beach County, about 896,442 people are fully vaccinated, or 59.9% of the county’s population.

▪ In Monroe County, about 51,833 people are fully vaccinated, or 69.8% of the county’s population.

▪ In Manatee County, about 223,324 people are fully vaccinated, or 55.4% of the county’s population.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida

There were 2,323 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Tuesday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 234 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients dropped by 10 from Monday’s report, when 258 hospitals submitted data. This continues a trend of decreasing hospitalizations.

COVID-19 patients take up 4.28% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 4.12% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 573 people were in intensive care unit beds, an increase of 14. That represents about 9.37% of the state’s ICU hospital beds compared to 9.52% the previous day.

Tuesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 154 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Monday, a decrease of 95 from the previous day’s report. Of the 13 new COVID patients, 10 (76.92%) had not been vaccinated.

Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 252 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, an increase of 12 from the previous day’s report.