Florida’s health department reported an increase of 10,105 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the highest number of positive tests since July 25.
The state also reported 29 more resident deaths as a result of the virus.
Florida is now up to 885,201 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 17,518 resident deaths, according to the health department’s dashboard. The state has also reported 216 non-resident deaths that occurred here, and 51,900 hospitalizations attributed to the novel coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
The statewide positivity rate on yesterday’s testing was 7.57%. The 14-day average positivity rate is 7.57% and the 7-day is 8.13%.
Miami-Dade’s positivity rate spiked to 9.53% on Saturday, the county’s highest since Aug. 24 when it was 9.43%.
Deaths confirmed in the past 24 hours in South Florida include two in Miami-Dade County and six in Broward County.
“We are failing,” FIU Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Aileen Marty said earlier this week. “We are failing because of a lack of understanding about how serious this is and how important it is to get the pandemic under control.”
Long lines at COVID-19 testing sites in South Florida reflect rising concern.
On Wednesday, the health department released a new report that shows more than 820 schools across South Florida have had COVID-19 cases over the past two months.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber has gone so far as to suggest that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pursuing herd immunity, allowing the virus to spread.
It’s also worth noting that the number of cases reported could be affected by several testing locations being closed temporarily because of Tropical Storm Eta.
MIAMI-DADE
Cases: 202,644 (+2,385)
Deaths: 3,709 (+2)
Yesterday’s positivity: 8.66%
BROWARD
Cases: 93,868 95,311 (+1,443)
Deaths: 1,591 (+6)
Yesterday’s positivity: 8.03%
MONROE
Cases: 2,810 (+58)
Deaths: 25 (unchanged)
Yesterday’s positivity: 15.25%
PALM BEACH
Cases: 57,661 58,396 (+735)
Deaths: 1,622 (unchanged)
Yesterday’s positivity: 6.97%
For more detailed data on every county from the latest Florida Department of Health report, click here.
Worldwide, the number of COVID-19 cases reported is more than 54.2 million. There have been more than 1.3 million deaths worldwide attributed to the pandemic, with over 34.8 million being declared recovered, according to data compiled from various sources by Johns Hopkins University.
The United States has passed 10.9 million confirmed cases, with over 245,000 deaths from COVID-19, the highest numbers in the world. Over 4.1 million Americans have been deemed recovered.
An influential model of the coronavirus pandemic has predicted 399,000 total coronavirus deaths in the United States by Feb. 1. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine said it’s most likely that by the middle of January, 2,250 Americans will be dying every day from coronavirus — three times more than the current rate.
Florida’s daily new cases reported have trended as follows:
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