By the Numbers: Coronavirus

 Thursday Afternoon Edition

September 17, 2020

NSF Staff

TALLAHASSEE --- State health-care agencies on Thursday released numbers about the coronavirus in Florida. Here are some takeaways:

--- 674,456: Total number of cases.

--- 3,255: Increase in cases from a Wednesday count.

--- 13,086: Deaths of Florida residents.

--- 147: Increase in Florida resident deaths from a Wednesday count.

--- 5,377: Deaths of residents and staff members of long-term care facilities.

--- 57: Increase in long-term care deaths from a Wednesday count.

--- 3: Counties with 500 or more long-term care deaths (Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Pinellas).

--- 17: Counties with more than 100 long-term care deaths (Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Broward, Hillsborough, Polk, Lee, Brevard, Duval, Sarasota, St. Lucie, Seminole, Manatee, Marion, Orange, Volusia and Escambia).

--- 2,383: People hospitalized with primary diagnoses of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.

--- 81: Decrease in people hospitalized from a Wednesday count.

--- 24: Percentage of available hospital beds statewide.

--- 22.8: Percentage of available adult intensive-care unit beds statewide.

Sources: Florida Department of Health and Florida Agency for Health Care Administration