Florida COVID update: Here’s where county death tolls stand as 1,675 cases added

Florida reported 1,675 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 deaths to Monday’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 3,704,013 confirmed COVID cases and 61,789 deaths.

In the past seven days, the state has added 36 deaths and 1,799 cases per day, on average, 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 Monday’s Community Profile Report, Florida had a death rate of 288 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the start of the pandemic. Two weeks ago, the state had a death rate of 285 deaths per 100,000 people.

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

▪ Miami-Dade County’s death toll is 9,187. The CDC has removed 19 deaths from the county’s toll in Monday’s report. Miami-Dade last saw an increase of 85 deaths in the Dec. 1 report. The county sits at a rate of 338 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Broward County’s death toll sits at 4,935, an increase of 14 deaths from Friday’s report. That’s a rate of 253 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Palm Beach County’s death toll sits at 4295, an increase of eight deaths from Friday’s report. That’s a rate of 287 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

▪ Monroe County’s death toll still sits at 98, an increase of two from Friday’s report. The county would be at a death rate of 132 deaths per 100,000 people if its population were that large.

▪ Manatee County’s death toll sits at 1,219, an increase of four from Friday’s report. Manatee has a rate of 302 cumulative deaths per 100,000 people since the beginning of the pandemic.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida

There were 1,359 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Tuesday report. This data is reported from 232 Florida hospitals. That is 61 more people than in Monday’s report, when 252 hospitals reported.

COVID-19 patients take up 2.55% of all inpatient beds in the latest report’s hospitals, compared to 2.32% in the previous day’s reporting hospitals.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 280 were in intensive care unit beds, a increase of 15. That represents about 4.53% of the state’s ICU hospital beds, compared to 4.71% the previous day.