Florida reports 6,772 new coronavirus cases and another 44 deaths

The number of new COVID cases dropped slightly Wednesday from the previous day but remains significantly higher than the daily count a month ago.

Florida reported new coronavirus cases on and another new resident deaths linked to COVID-19. The state has now reported cases since the pandemic began.

Wednesday’s daily count of new cases represents nearly 2,300 fewer cases than the previous day, but it also represents test results of nearly 27,000 fewer people.

In early January, the seven-day average for new cases had climbed as high as 17,991. It was 6,420 on Wednesday, rising steadily since March 14 when the seven-day average was 4,545 new cases.

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Take a deeper look at Florida’s updated coronavirus numbers.

South Florida

South Florida counties reported 2,455 new cases Wednesday. July 2020 was the worst month for cases in South Florida.

Palm Beach County: additional cases and more deaths. The county now has confirmed cases and deaths, including non-residents.

Broward County: additional cases and more deaths. Broward has a known total of cases and deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. The death tally includes non-residents.

Miami-Dade County: additional cases and new deaths. The county now has confirmed cases and deaths, including 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 % on , from % the day before. This method of calculating positivity counts new infections only, but also counts repeat negative tests, which skews the figure downward.

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

The positivity rate has been rising in South Florida counties and is now close to 7%.

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

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

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

Deaths

The numbers of daily deaths in South Florida have declined after peaking in August 2020 and January 2021.

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

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

Hospitalizations

As of , there were 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 , Palm Beach County had and Miami-Dade had .

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Papa.parse(“https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sun-sentinel.com/data/covid19/daily-totals/PALM-BEACH.csv”,
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};

function updateBroward(data){

var latest_data = data[data.length – 2]
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};

function updatePalm(data){

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function updateDade(data){

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d_totaldeaths = document.getElementById(‘d_totaldeaths’),
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d_newtests = document.getElementById(‘d_newtests’)

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if (parseFloat(current_data.first_time_positivity) > parseFloat(previous_data.first_time_positivity)) {
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};

// Load hospital data
Papa.parse(“https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sun-sentinel.com/data/covid19/daily-totals/All-hospitalizations.csv”,
{
download: true,
header: true,
complete: function(results) {
var data = results.data

var previous_data = data[data.length – 3],
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f_hospitalized = document.getElementById(‘f_hospitalized’)

f_hospitalized.innerHTML = parseInt(current_data[“COVID Hospitalizations”].replace(“,”, “”)).toLocaleString()
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}
}
)
Papa.parse(“https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sun-sentinel.com/data/covid19/daily-totals/BROWARD-hospitalizations.csv”,
{
download: true,
header: true,
complete: function(results) {
var data = results.data

var previous_data = data[data.length – 3],
current_data = data[data.length – 2],
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b_hospitalized = document.getElementById(‘b_hospitalized’)

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}
}
)
Papa.parse(“https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sun-sentinel.com/data/covid19/daily-totals/MIAMI-DADE-hospitalizations.csv”,
{
download: true,
header: true,
complete: function(results) {
var data = results.data

var previous_data = data[data.length – 3],
current_data = data[data.length – 2],
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d_hospitalized = document.getElementById(‘d_hospitalized’)

d_hospitalized.innerHTML = parseInt(current_data[“COVID Hospitalizations”].replace(“,”, “”)).toLocaleString()
d_hospitalized_new.innerHTML = (parseInt(previous_data[“COVID Hospitalizations”].replace(“,”, “”)) – parseInt(previous_data[“COVID Hospitalizations”].replace(“,”, “”))).toLocaleString()

}
}
)
Papa.parse(“https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sun-sentinel.com/data/covid19/daily-totals/PALM-BEACH-hospitalizations.csv”,
{
download: true,
header: true,
complete: function(results) {
var data = results.data

var previous_data = data[data.length – 3],
current_data = data[data.length – 2],
p_hospitalized_new = document.getElementById(‘p_hospitalized_new’),
p_hospitalized = document.getElementById(‘p_hospitalized’)

p_hospitalized.innerHTML = parseInt(current_data[“COVID Hospitalizations”].replace(“,”, “”)).toLocaleString()
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}
}
)

// Load national data
Papa.parse(“https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sun-sentinel.com/data/covid19/national/states_latest_for_charts.csv”,
{
download: true,
header: true,
complete: function(results) {
var data = results.data

// Rank Florida based on deaths
var deaths_sorted = data.sort(function (a, b) {
return b.deaths_per_100k – a.deaths_per_100k;
});

var fl_position;
for (var i=0; i < deaths_sorted.length; i++) {
if (deaths_sorted[i]["state"] == "Florida") {
fl_position = i
}
}

document.getElementById("flDeathRank").innerHTML = fl_position

// Rank Florida based on cases
var cases_sorted = data.sort(function (a, b) {
return b.positive_per_100k – a.positive_per_100k;
});

var fl_cases_position;
for (var i=0; i < cases_sorted.length; i++) {
if (cases_sorted[i]["state"] == "Florida") {
fl_cases_position = i
}
}

document.getElementById("flCasesRank").innerHTML = fl_cases_position

}
}
)

function setWeekday(dayNumber){
var gsDayNames = [
'Sunday',
'Monday',
'Tuesday',
'Wednesday',
'Thursday',
'Friday',
'Saturday'
];
var dayName = gsDayNames[dayNumber];

document.querySelectorAll(".currentWeekday").forEach(function(item) {
item.innerHTML = dayName
})

}

Hospitalizations hit a high in late July of about 9,500 patients statewide. They had hovered around 3,000 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in recent months but that number has slightly increased in the last week.

Explore the map of current hospital capacity across Florida.

Vaccines

More than 7.3 million people in Florida have received one or more doses of a COVID vaccine.

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Promise.all([d3.csv(“https://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sun-sentinel.com/data/covid19/latest_vaccine_data.csv”)]).then(function(data) {

let flData = data[0].filter(function(row) {
return row.county === “Total”;
})

// Population according to 2019 ACS 1-year
let flPop = 21477737

let firstDoses = parseInt(flData[0][“first_dose_cumulative”])
let firstDosePct = (firstDoses/flPop) * 100
let completeDoses = parseInt(flData[0][“series_complete_cumulative”])
let completeDosePct = (completeDoses/flPop) * 100

// Set robo-text
document.getElementById(“firstDoseTotal”).innerHTML = firstDoses.toLocaleString()
document.getElementById(“firstDosePct”).innerHTML = firstDosePct.toFixed(2)
document.getElementById(“seriesTotal”).innerHTML = completeDoses.toLocaleString()
document.getElementById(“seriesPct”).innerHTML = completeDosePct.toFixed(2)

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document.getElementById(“full-dose-bar-progress”).style.width = completeDosePct + “%”

document.getElementById(“data-timestamp”).innerHTML = flData[0][“date”]

})

Sun Sentinel health reporter Cindy Goodman can be reached at cgoodman@sunsentinel.com