Tuesday Florida COVID update: 13,201 more cases added to state tally

Devoun Cetoute
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Florida on Tuesday reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 13,201 more COVID-19 cases and five deaths, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,517,177 confirmed COVID cases and 51,889 deaths since the pandemic began.

In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 376 deaths and 9,112 cases per day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data. The 376 deaths per day, reported Tuesday, tie with Florida’s highest seven-day death average recorded Monday.

Florida COVID-19 vaccine rates

About 12,081,811 eligible Floridians — 56.3% of the state’s population — had 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 CDC.

Vaccinations in South Florida and Manatee County

The CDC reported that every county’s level of community transmission was high. Here’s how many people have been fully vaccinated in South Florida, according to the CDC.

▪ In Miami-Dade County, about 1,930,319 people, or 71% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.

▪ In Broward County, about 1,168,493 people are fully vaccinated, or 59.8% of the county’s population.

▪ In Palm Beach County, about 853,658 people are fully vaccinated, or 57% of the county’s population.

▪ In Monroe County, about 49,277 people are fully vaccinated, or 66.4% of the county’s population.

▪ In Manatee County, about 211,318 people are fully vaccinated, or 52.4% of the county’s population.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida

There were 8,438 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Tuesday report. This data is reported from 234 Florida hospitals. That is 749 fewer patients than yesterday’s report, but also from 21 fewer reporting hospitals than the 255 on Monday.

COVID-19 patients occupy 15.76% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared with 16.4% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 2,206 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 153. That represents about 34.21% of the state’s ICU hospital beds compared with 38% the previous day.

Tuesday’s Miami-Dade County report said there were 720 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals on Monday, a decrease of six from the previous day’s report. Of the 60 new COVID patients, 43 (71.67%) had not been vaccinated.

Broward County’s Tuesday report said there were 729 COVID patients in the county’s hospitals, an increase of 10 from Monday’s patient population.