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Florida COVID update: 11,300 more cases reported and fewer patients in the hospital

Miami Herald - 9/15/2021

Florida on Tuesday reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11,300 more COVID-19 cases and three deaths, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,453,390 confirmed COVID cases and 49,254 deaths.

In the last seven days, on average, the state has added 326 deaths and 12,627 cases to the daily cumulative total, according to Herald calculations of CDC data.

Florida COVID-19 vaccine rates

About 11,872,566 eligible Floridians -- 55.3% of the state's population -- had completed the two-dose series of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, or have completed Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine, according to the CDC.

Vaccinations in South Florida and Manatee County

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

In Miami-Dade County about 1,897,985 people, or 69.9% of the county's total population, are fully vaccinated.

In Broward County about 1,148,097 people are fully vaccinated, or 58.8% of the county's population.

In Palm Beach County, about 840,471 people are fully vaccinated, or 56.2% of the county's population.

In Monroe Countyabout 48,432 people are fully vaccinated, or 65.2% of the county's population.

In Manatee County about 207,566 people are fully vaccinated, or 51.5% of the county's population.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida

According to Herald calculations of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Tuesday report, there were 10,979 COVID-19 patients reported from 228 Florida hospitals.

That's 568 fewer patients than Monday's report from 259 hospitals. In Tuesday's report, COVID-19 patients take up about 20% of all inpatient hospital beds compared to 20.01% in the previous day's reporting hospitals.

Of the people hospitalized in Florida, 2,673 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 123 from the previous day's report, Herald analyses show. That represents about 40% of the ICU hospital beds at the 228 hospitals reporting data, compared to 42.51% the previous day.

Tuesday's Miami-Dade County report said there were 945 COVID patients in the county's hospitals on Monday, an increase of 15 from the previous day's report. Of the 73 new COVID patients, 55 (75.34%) had not been vaccinated.

Broward County's Tuesday report said there were 904 COVID patients in the county's hospitals, a decrease of 31 from Monday's patient population.

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