Coronavirus Stats At-A-Glance: Florida Adds 3,204 Newly Reported Cases, 2-Week Positivity Rate 4.77%
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 12:00 p.m. on September 18, 2020.
FLORIDA: 677,660 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 3,204
- Total Florida Deaths: 13,386
- Newly Reported Deaths: 139 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 42,234
- Total Tests: 5,045,344
- Negative Test Results: 4,360,061
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 4.77%
MIAMI-DADE: 165,980 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 385
- Total Deaths: 3,027
- Newly Reported Deaths: 50 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 7,679
- Total Tests: 878,521
- Negative: 710,521
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 4.93%
BROWARD: 75,266 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 218
- Total Deaths: 1,317
- Newly Reported Deaths: 6 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 5,761
- Total Tests: 545,086
- Negative: 468,936
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 3.19%
MONROE: 1,801 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 2
- Total Deaths: 22
- Newly Reported Deaths: 0 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 120
- Total Tests: 17,152
- Negative: 15,339
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 2.70%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 6,681,251 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 197,763 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 30,241,377 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 947,266
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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