Florida COVID update: 2,096 new cases added to state tally

Florida reported 2,096 COVID-19 cases and no new deaths on Tuesday, according to Wednesday’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 deaths to Tuesday’s total. The state has done this in the past when it has added cases and deaths to previous days during the pandemic.

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,693,516 confirmed COVID cases and 61,539 deaths.

The CDC did not release Florida COVID figures on Thanksgiving, Friday and Sunday, causing an artificially lower seven-day case and death average than where state averages currently stand.

Looking at these lower averages, in the past seven days the state has added 56 deaths and 1,312 cases per day on average, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

FLORIDA COVID VACCINE RATES

About 13,198,826 eligible Floridians — 61.5% 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 2,118,365 people, or 78% of the county’s total population, are fully vaccinated.

▪ In Broward County, about 1,274,651 people are fully vaccinated, or 65.3% of the county’s population.

▪ In Palm Beach County, about 920,376 people are fully vaccinated, or 61.5% of the county’s population.

▪ In Monroe County, about 54,039 people are fully vaccinated, or 72.8% of the county’s population.

▪ In Manatee County, about 231,316 people are fully vaccinated, or 57.4% of the county’s population.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida

There were 1,247 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to a Wednesday report by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which compiled data from 234 Florida hospitals. Hospitalized COVID patients increased by 19 from Tuesday’s report, when 227 hospitals submitted data.

COVID-19 patients take up 2.31% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.32% reported in the previous day’s report.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 234 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 40. That represents about 4.20% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.47% the previous day.