Coronavirus Stats At-A-Glance: Florida Adds 4,044 Newly Reported Cases, Adds 88 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 a.m. on October 17, 2020.
FLORIDA: 752,481 confirmed cases
- Increase: 4,044
- Total Deaths: 16,118
- Newly Reported Deaths: 88 *(Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 46,976
- Total Tests: 5,711,339
- Negative Test Results: 4,951,619
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 4.73%
MIAMI-DADE: 177,893 confirmed cases
- Increase: 554
- Total Deaths: 3,537
- Newly Reported Deaths: 17*(Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 8,048
- Total Tests: 984,278
- Negative: 804,404
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 4.70%
BROWARD: 80,820 confirmed cases
- Increase: 377
- Total Deaths: 1,506
- Newly Reported Deaths: 6 *(Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 6,110
- Total Tests: 612,195
- Negative: 530,492
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 3.42%
MONROE: 2,038 confirmed cases
- Increase: 16
- Total Deaths: 25
- Newly Reported Deaths: 1 (Reported in last 48 hours)
- Hospitalizations: 136
- Total Tests: 19,420
- Negative: 17,369
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 8.5%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 8,054,067 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 218,625 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 39,421,733 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 1,105,751
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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