Coronavirus Stats At-A-Glance: Florida Reports 1,736 New Cases & 2-Week Positivity Rate Of 5.23%
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 3:30 p.m. on September 14, 2020.
FLORIDA: 665,730 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 1,736
- Total Florida Deaths: 12,800
- Newly Reported Deaths: 36 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 41,374
- Total Tests: 4,948,075
- Negative Test Results: 4,275,278
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 5.23%
MIAMI-DADE: 164,299 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 213
- Total Deaths: 2,894
- Newly Reported Deaths: 14 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 7,582
- Total Tests: 862,601
- Negative: 696,273
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 5.74%
BROWARD: 74,525 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 91
- Total Deaths: 1,284
- Newly Reported Deaths: 4 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 5,679
- Total Tests: 536,562
- Negative: 461,158
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 3.68%
MONROE: 1,787 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 8
- Total Deaths: 20
- Newly Reported Deaths: 0 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 118
- Total Tests: 16,921
- Negative: 15,122
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 3.32%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 6,526,143 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 194,155 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 29,059,868 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 925,084
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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