Florida hits another record for COVID-19 cases to start the July 4th weekend - Tampa Bay Times

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Florida hit another single-day record for positive coronavirus tests Saturday, reporting 11,458 new cases.

The state is closing in on 200,000 total infections and may surpass that number this weekend if cases continue rising at the same rate as recent days. There have now been 190,052 statewide.

Eighteen new deaths also were reported, including two in Hillsborough County and one in Pinellas. That brings the state’s seven-day average to about 45 deaths per day, the highest since May 12.

Statewide, 3,803 people have died from the virus.

An additional 245 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, making Saturday the state’s 11th-highest day for new admissions. Friday was the third-highest, at 341.

In all, 16,040 people have been been hospitalized with the disease.

How fast is the number of Florida COVID-19 cases growing?

What’s the picture in the state?

Florida has conducted more than 2.1 million coronavirus tests, and about 65,000 were reported Saturday.

The state has a seven-day average of about 18 percent coming back positive, meaning it ranks second only to Arizona, which has a 26 percent positivity rate, and far exceeds the World Health Organization’s recommended rate of 5 percent.

The jump in cases comes as space in hospitals dwindles and while people gather across the state to both celebrate the Fourth of July and continue protesting police brutality. In response, some Florida hospitals have started rolling back elective surgeries to make way for more COVID-19 patients.

About a quarter of regular hospital beds and about 20 percent of ICU beds in the state were available Saturday afternoon, according to a dashboard by the Agency for Health Care Administration.

What’s the picture in Tampa Bay?

The Tampa Bay region saw 1,836 new cases reported Saturday, with the most (656) in Hillsborough. There were three new deaths and 48 more hospitalizations.

The biggest jump in hospitalizations was in Pinellas, with 18 new admissions. Hillsborough and Pasco each saw nine.

The two new deaths in Hillsborough, plus an additional death that had previously been reported but not further identified, include an 87-year-old woman, 72-year-old man and 82-year-old man.

The lone death in Pinellas was of an 80-year-old woman. A previously recorded death in Pasco was identified as a 74-year-old man.

Currently, Hillsborough has 13,700 cases — the fourth-highest count of Florida’s 67 counties, behind only Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach — and 153 deaths.

Pinellas has 8,116 cases and 186 deaths; Manatee has 3,554 cases and 133 deaths; Polk has 4,906 cases and 106 deaths; Pasco has 2,608 cases and 24 deaths; Hernando has 521 cases and six deaths; and Citrus has 372 cases and 13 deaths.

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