Florida passes 5,000 coronavirus deaths, with 90 more reported Saturday - Tampa Bay Times

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More than 5,000 people in Florida have now died from the coronavirus, with the addition of 90 deaths on Saturday bringing the total to 5,002.

The number comes after four consecutive days where coronavirus deaths surpassed 100. The weekly death average decreased slightly, from 101 deaths per day to 100.

The state also recorded 443 additional hospitalizations, one of the largest increases since the pandemic began. The only days that recorded higher numbers were Wednesday and Thursday. That followed a two-week stretch starting early July during which the number of hospitalizations increased day after day. As of Saturday, the average daily hospitalizations for the week had reached 375.

On Saturday, Florida recorded 10,328 new infections. The daily positivity rate was about 12 percent. The number of people infected with coronavirus over the four-and-a-half months since March is 337,569.

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

What’s the picture statewide?

The state’s high for single-day coronavirus cases in Florida was 15,300 infections, the most of any U.S. state on any day. Irregular testing has led to Florida having some days with more than 100,000 tests processed, and others with about 50,000 tests processed, according to the Florida Department of Health report. On Saturday, the state reported 90,000 tests processed.

The coronavirus data released each day by the Department of Health does not necessarily show what occurred during the previous 24 hours. For example, the state’s 15,300 peak figure included several days of test results, according to a lab responsible for about half of that day’s positives.

Florida’s weekly average positivity has continued to hold high above the World Health Organization recommended average of five percent. Florida’s positivity is about 18 percent, the second highest of any U.S. state, according to Johns Hopkins University.

High positivity may mean testing isn’t widespread enough to capture the full scope of how the disease is spreading, according to the university.

But testing in Florida has already been a recent point of trouble. Gov. Ron DeSantis has said he’s disappointed with labs taking a long time to return results.

The median age of people testing positive in the past few days is 41 years old. When caseloads started surging in mid-June, DeSantis highlighted that it was mainly young people testing positive who are lower risk.

A recent analysis from the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald, which looked at dozens of times DeSantis has spoken about the virus, showed the governor tends to use data that paints Florida’s situation in the most positive light. When caseloads started to rise, DeSantis shifted from touting the low number of cases and started talking about the young median age of the positives.

Though the bulk of deaths from coronavirus are people age 65 and older, young people have and continue to be hospitalized and die from the virus, especially if they have existing health issues.

At Tampa General Hospital, an emergency room physician said a larger percentage of younger patients are becoming severely ill — part of an overall surge in patients the hospital, along with others in the Tampa Bay area, have seen.

Statewide, about 22 percent of hospital beds and 16 percent of ICU beds are available, according to the Agency for Healthcare Administration. In the Tampa Bay area, about 18 percent of hospital beds and 10 percent of ICU beds are open.

Nearly 9,000 people across the state are in the hospital with a primary diagnosis of coronavirus, excluding people who are in the hospital with the virus but who were admitted for other reasons. Just over 1,500 of those in the hospital because of coronavirus are in the Tampa Bay area, according to the Agency for Healthcare Administration.

Is Florida’s coronavirus outbreak still growing?

What’s the picture in Tampa Bay?

The Tampa Bay area added 25 coronavirus deaths and 1,488 cases Saturday. The bulk of cases were in Hillsborough, which has the fourth-most infections of any Florida county.

Twelve of the day’s announced deaths were in Polk, 10 were in Pinellas, two in Pasco and one in Hillsborough.

The deaths included a 95-year-old woman in Hillsborough and people ranging in age from 48 to 93 in Pinellas and 68 to 92 in Polk.

Though Hillsborough leads the region in infections, Pinellas has the most deaths in the Tampa Bay area, largely because of large outbreaks within nursing homes. About 70 percent of deaths in Pinellas are tied to long-term care facilities. Only Miami-Dade and Palm Beach County have seen more deaths in long-term care facilities, and both counties have significantly more infections.

About 9 percent of Pinellas’s coronavirus cases result in hospitalization, where statewide only about 6 percent of cases result in hospitalization.

As of the latest counts, Hillsborough has 23,103 cases and 237 deaths; Pinellas has 13,019 cases and 312 deaths; Polk has 9,030 cases and 175 deaths; Manatee has 6,280 cases and 145 deaths; Pasco has 4,769 cases and 43 deaths; Hernando has 1,110 cases and 14 deaths; and Citrus has 766 cases and 17 deaths.

Florida coronavirus cases by age group

Doctors say older people are at a greater risk to developing severe symptoms from COVID-19, which makes Florida especially vulnerable.

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