Coronavirus Stats At-A-Glance: Florida's 2-Week Positivity Rate Drops Below 10 Percent
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – New cases of the coronavirus are surfacing every day in South Florida and the rest of the state.
Here are the latest numbers and information you need to know at-a-glance as of 1:00 p.m. on August 12, 2020.
FLORIDA: 557,137 confirmed cases
- One-Day increase: 6,236
- Total Florida Deaths: 9,047
- New Deaths: 150 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 32,537
- Total Tests: 4,128,584
- Negative Test Results: 3,564,981
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 9.92%
MIAMI-DADE: 140,984 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- One-Day Increase: 1,713
- Total Deaths: 1,954
- New Deaths: 15 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 6,532
- Total Tests: 718,449
- Negative: 575,630
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 14.11%
BROWARD: 64,741 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 661
- Total Deaths: 883
- New Deaths: 24 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 4,259
- Total Tests: 450,047
- Negative: 384,502
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 9.74%
MONROE: 1,577 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 21
- Total Deaths: 13
- New Deaths: 0 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 103
- Total Tests: 14,215
- Negative: 12,626
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 10.06%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 5,215,958 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 166,148 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 20,692,320 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 750,744
- 188 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.
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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