After a delay in releasing new COVID-19 data, the Florida Department of Health shared their reports just before 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Florida has seen a steady trend of above 2,000 cases a day for the past 15 days. The cases come as Florida experiences a cold wave dropping temperatures down into the 50s overnight.
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The cooler temps are sending more gatherings indoors and making for what health officials say could be a dark season.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a Washington Post interview Friday that the U.S. will have to deal with “a whole lot of hurt” in the weeks ahead due to surging coronavirus cases.
Fauci said the U.S. “could not possibly be positioned more poorly” to stem rising cases as more people gather indoors during the colder fall and winter months. He says the U.S. will need to make an “abrupt change” in public health precautions.
Cases
The Florida Department of Health reported 4,637 new cases on Tuesday, bringing the state’s overall total to 816,700 cases since March.
Deaths
The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday reported 56 people have recently died from COVID-19. As of Tuesday’s coronavirus report, a total of 17,099 deaths across the state have been related to the coronavirus, a number that includes 209 non-resident deaths in Florida.
State health officials have always maintained that virus fatalities are often delayed in being reported to the FDOH, with some deaths not reported for a month or more.
Hospitalizations
Currently, there are 2,485 people with the virus hospitalized in Florida, according to the state Agency for Health Care Administration.
The state reported 230 new hospitalizations on Tuesday, meaning the state has seen a total of 49,715 patients admitted to a hospital since March in relation to COVID-19.
Positivity Rate
The percent of positive results ranged from 3.66% to 7.58% over the past two weeks and was 7.58% for Monday’s results.
[READ YESTERDAY’S COVID-19 REPORT: Florida surpasses 17,000 coronavirus deaths as Election Day looms]
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| County | Cases | New Cases | Hospitalizations | New Hospitalizations | Deaths | New Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brevard | 12,034 | 146 | 1,034 | 4 | 378 | 3 |
| Flagler | 2,205 | 12 | 171 | 0 | 41 | 1 |
| Lake | 8,851 | 66 | 740 | 7 | 228 | 1 |
| Marion | 11,048 | 50 | 1,075 | 4 | 351 | 0 |
| Orange | 47,346 | 360 | 1,616 | 11 | 561 | 0 |
| Osceola | 14,564 | 90 | 842 | 6 | 212 | 5 |
| Polk | 23,525 | 120 | 2,486 | 17 | 633 | 8 |
| Seminole | 10,576 | 64 | 758 | 5 | 245 | 2 |
| Sumter | 2,991 | 24 | 291 | 0 | 86 | 0 |
| Volusia | 13,186 | 97 | 978 | 6 | 324 | 0 |
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