Coronavirus Stats At-A-Glance: Florida's 2-Week Positivity Rate Continues To Decrease Very Slowly
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 28, 2020.
FLORIDA: 615,806 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 3,815
- Total Florida Deaths: 11,100
- Newly Reported Deaths: 89 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 38,029
- Total Tests: 4,554,563
- Negative Test Results: 3,931,871
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 6.64%
MIAMI-DADE: 155,418 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 661
- Total Deaths: 2,372
- Newly Reported Deaths: 26 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 7,166
- Total Tests: 88,572
- Negative: 643,172
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 9.33%
BROWARD: 70,513 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 366
- Total Deaths: 1,175
- Newly Reported Deaths: 6 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 5,247
- Total Tests: 495,158
- Negative: 423,765
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 6.24%
MONROE: 1,714 confirmed cases
- One-Day Increase: 10
- Total Deaths: 16
- Newly Reported Deaths: 1 *(Reported in last 24 hours)
- Resident Hospitalizations: 111
- Total Tests: 15,871
- Negative: 14,144
- 14-Day Average Positivity Rate: 5.52%
These numbers are provided by the Florida Department of Health Dashboard.
UNITED STATES: 5,873,124 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 180,901 (all states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico)
AROUND THE WORLD: 24,499,384 confirmed cases
- Deaths: 832,608
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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