Coronavirus At-A-Glance 5-17-20
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 12 p.m. on May 17, 2020.
FLORIDA: 45,588 confirmed cases
- Residents: 44,369
- Deaths: 1,973
- Hospitalizations: 8,230
- All 67 counties reporting
- Total Tests: 653,081
- Negative Test Results: 606,204
- Percent Positive: 7%
MIAMI-DADE: 15,658 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- Residents: 15,481; Residents Not In Florida: 1, Non-Residents: 176
- Deaths: 561
- Hospitalizations: 2,414
- Total Tests: 125,961
- Negative: 109,977; Awaiting Results: 284; Inconclusive: 192
BROWARD: 6,243 confirmed cases
- Residents: 6,088, Non-Residents: 155
- Deaths: 279
- Hospitalizations: 1,324
- Total Tests: 73,750
- Negative: 67,382; Awaiting Results: 38; Inconclusive: 54
MONROE: 100 confirmed cases
- Residents: 92, Non-Residents: 8
- Deaths: 3
- Hospitalizations: 12
- Total Tests: 2,047
- Negative: 1,947; Awaiting Results: 50, Inconclusive: 0
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 1,471,674 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 88,836 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 4,667,109 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 312,381
- 187 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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