Coronavirus Stats At-A-Glance: Florida Adds 3,356 Newly Reported Cases, 144 New Deaths
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 11:30 a.m. on October 15, 2020.
FLORIDA: 744,988 confirmed cases
- Increase: 3,356
- Total Deaths: 15,932
- Newly Reported Deaths: 144 *(Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 46,693
- Total Tests: 5,650,724
- Negative Test Results: 4,898,533
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 4.65%
MIAMI-DADE: 176,809 confirmed cases
- Increase: 538
- Total Deaths: 3,501
- Newly Reported Deaths: 16 *(Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 8,018
- Total Tests: 973,693
- Negative: 794,903
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 4.84%
BROWARD: 80,112 confirmed cases
- Increase: 236
- Total Deaths: 1,492
- Newly Reported Deaths: 8 *(Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 6,090
- Total Tests: 605,345
- Negative: 524,349
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 3.22%
MONROE: 2,002 confirmed cases
- Increase: 23
- Total Deaths: 24
- Newly Reported Deaths: 0 *(Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 134
- Total Tests: 19,195
- Negative: 17,180
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 7.57%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 7,920,386 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 216,933 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 38,599,508 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 1,093,548
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 c30ases 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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