Coronavirus At-A-Glance 4-17-20
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – New cases of the coronavirus are surfacing every day across the nation and around the world.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 6:30 p.m. on April 17, 2020.
FLORIDA: 24,753 confirmed cases
- Residents: 24,066
- Deaths: 726
- Hospitalizations: 3,649
- All 67 counties reporting confirmed cases
- People Tested: 241,913
- Negative Test Results: 215,229
- Percent positive: 10.3% positive
MIAMI-DADE: 8,824 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- Residents: 8,741, Residents Not in Florida: 1, Non-Residents: 78
- Deaths: 195
- Hospitalizations: 49,818
- Negative: 42,306, Awaiting Results: 224, Inconclusive: 164
BROWARD: 3,688 confirmed cases
- Residents: 3,572, Non-Residents: 116
- Deaths: 107
- Hospitalizations: 612
- Total Tests: 31,405
- Negative: 27,682, Awaiting Results: 66, Inconclusive: 35
MONROE: 66 confirmed cases
- Residents: 68, Non-Residents: 7
- Deaths: 3
- Hospitalizations: 9
- Total Tests: 888
- Negative: 820, Awaiting Results: 31, Inconclusive: 0
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard and are updated twice daily.
UNITED STATES: 699,105 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 36,507 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 2,224,426 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 153,177
- 185 countries/regions affected
TO AVOID GETTING SICK
- Wash your hands often for at least 20 seconds
- Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, mouth and face
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick or exhibit symptoms
- Stay home when you are sick
- Cough and sneeze into your elbow, not your hands
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you sneeze, then throw out the tissue and wash your hands
- Disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces
- Evaluate your travel plans as conditions warrant; you should rethink traveling to areas that are already under a travel advisory or areas that are experiencing an outbreak of Coronavirus
- Currently, there is no vaccine to protect against the coronavirus and no medications to treat it.
SYMPTOMS
- Mild to severe respiratory illness
- Fever
- Cough
- Shortness of breath
- For those with a weakened immune system, the elderly and the very young, there's a chance the virus could cause a lower, and much more serious, respiratory tract illness like a pneumonia or bronchitis.
- Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure
CLICK HERE to see an interactive dashboard showing real-time data of confirmed cases and deaths. Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering created a map that provides the most accurate international tracking of the outbreak of coronavirus, or COVID-19.
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