Coronavirus Stats At-A-Glance: Florida Adds 3,838 New Cases As 2-Week Positivity Rate Trends Downward
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 a.m. on August 18, 2020.
FLORIDA: 579,932 confirmed cases
- One-Day increase: 3,838
- Total Florida Deaths: 9,893
- New Deaths: 219 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 34,695
- Total Tests: 4,285,720
- Negative Test Results: 3,699,108
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 9.12%
MIAMI-DADE: 146,990 confirmed cases (largest number in the state)
- One-Day Increase: 964
- Total Deaths: 2,126
- New Deaths: 45 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 6,785
- Total Tests: 751,919
- Negative: 598,977
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 12.8%
BROWARD: 67,193 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 367
- Total Deaths: 1,025
- New Deaths: 12 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 4,658
- Total Tests: 468,256
- Negative: 400,201
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 8.67%
MONROE: 1,650 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 7
- Total Deaths: 13
- New Deaths: 0 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 108
- Total Tests: 15,021
- Negative: 13,358
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 8.57%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 5,446,233 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 170,067 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 21,918,920 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 775,999
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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