The number of new coronavirus cases in Florida increased by 332.9% in the week ending Sunday. The previous week there were over 30,000 new cases of the virus.
Florida is on the top 10 list where the virus is spreading the fastest.
A USA TODAY Network analysis shows that Florida was ninth in the country in terms of how fast coronaviruses were spreading. The number of coronaviruses reported in the United States increased by 45% from the week before. Florida had 8.99% of the country's cases in the last week. 26 states had more cases in the last week than they did in the previous week.
Christmas disrupted who got tested, how many people got tested, what labs operated, and what government agencies reported on time. Testing and reporting will be disrupted by New Year's and some cases and deaths that would have been reported last week might be reported in the coming week. The week-to-week comparisons will be skewed and unreliable because they're not accurate to what states reported.
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There has been a surge in cases in Florida.
In the last week, 1,214 cases were reported in the county. It had reported more than 300 cases a week before. 84,393 cases have been reported throughout the Pandemic.
Florida doesn't publish death data at the county level.
The worst weekly outbreak on a per-person basis was within Florida.
Miami-Dade County has over one thousand COVID cases per week.
The county has 1, 205.
Palm Beach County has 791.
The Centers for Disease Control says there is a high level of community transmission.
Adding the most new cases as a whole.
There were 52,435 cases in Miami-Dade County.
There were 23,532 cases in the county.
11,812 were from Palm Beach County.
The weekly case counts increased in many counties. The increases from the prior week were the worst in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
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What is the rate of vaccinations in Florida?
Florida has the highest percentage of residents who are partially vaccine-free, with 26% of them receiving at least one shot. USA TODAY analyzed CDC data and found that the national rate is 72.7%. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the most used in the United States and require two separate doses.
In the week ending Thursday, Florida gave out 605,070 vaccine doses. In the previous week, the state gave out over a million vaccine doses. Florida has administered 33,172,989 total doses.
There was a decline in COVID cases in these Florida counties.
In Liberty County, there were 4 cases from 10 a week earlier, the best decline, followed by Franklin County with 3 cases from 8 and Gilchrist County with 8 cases from 11.
How many died from coronaviruses in Florida?
In Florida, 127 people died of Covid-19 in the last week. There were more than 200 deaths in the week before that.
More than 3 million people in Florida have tested positive for the coronaviruses since the beginning of the epidemic, and more than 60,000 people have died from it. In the United States, 52 million people have tested positive and over one million have died.
There are coronaviruses cases in the United States.
Hospital admissions in Florida are rising.
USA TODAY looked at federal hospital data.
There are likely to beVID patients admitted in the state.
Last week: 4,979.
The week before that was 3,029.
Two weeks ago, 2,177.
There are likely to be a lot of patients admitted in the nation.
Last week: 99,084.
The week before that was 90,677.
Four weeks ago: 76,315.
Hospitals in 18 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 28 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. The USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows that hospitals in 29 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the last week than in the previous week.
The USA TODAY Network is publishing versions of the story on its news sites across the country, using data from the Centers for Disease Control. If you have a question about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.
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