NEWS ARTICLE UPDATE: Orange County/Over 1000 Coronavirus Case
Florida coronavirus update for Monday: State passes 20k cases, more than 1,000 in Orange, deaths up to 470
The coronavirus pandemic took its deadliest turn in Florida in the last week as the state death toll rose from 221 to 470 in just over seven days.
The coronavirus pandemic took its deadliest turn in Florida in the last week as the state death toll rose from 221 to 470 in just over seven days.
Cases rose to 20,601 as of Monday morning, up from 12,350 on April 5, an increase of more than 8,000. Just two weeks back, Florida was sitting on 4,950 cases with 60 deaths, meaning the state has seen more than 400 deaths in a 14-day span.
Weekend numbers, though, were less severe than previous days as reported deaths only rose by 27 on Saturday and 15 on Sunday after two straight days of 48-death increases. Florida’s largest single day of fatalities was 57 deaths from April 1-2. The first of two updates to Monday’s state totals released after 11 a.m. added nine new deaths since Sunday night including one in Brevard County, and identified 706 new cases.
Central Florida now has 2,498 total reported cases. Orange County leads the region with 1,017, followed by Osceola’s 333, Seminole’s 267, Polk’s 263, Volusia’s 212, Lake’s 155, Brevard’s 140 and Sumter’s 111. (See details on all Central Florida cases here).
South Florida remains the epicenter of the state’s outbreak with 12,037 cases from Miami-Dade (7,241), Broward (3,105) and Palm Beach (1,691) counties accounting for 58% of Florida’s total.
Central Florida has seen 53 deaths with Orange County logging the most with 13, followed by Sumter’s 9, Polk’s 8, Volusia’s 7, Osceola’s 5, Brevard’s 5, Lake’s 4 and Seminole’s 2. Miami-Dade has the most in the state with 97, followed by 88 in Palm Beach and 76 in Broward.
Signs of the state shutdown flattening the curve, though, have been showing as more people shelter in place and testing continues to expand.
Through April 13, the state has rolled out 196,819 tests, up more than 80,000 tests from one week earlier, which is nearly 1 in 100 Floridians. Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the drive-through site at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando and other state-run sites across Florida will keep testing people and expand its services to allow anyone with coronavirus symptoms to get tested as well as anyone who may be asymptomatic but had close contact with confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Also, more of the state’s cities and local governments are asking — or requiring — people to cover their faces while out in public. Osceola County leaders announced Friday all residents must cover their noses and mouths with a mask or cloth when in public. Violation of the order is a second-degree misdemeanor. Demings said he is considering a similar order but he is concerned about mask availability and whether the order would be enforceable. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties all have a similar order in place as of Monday.
The effects of those efforts have been shifting in a positive manner one influential model used by the Trump administration to determine the severity of the pandemic. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation out of the University of Washington has projected decreasing total deaths in both Florida and across the nation as the population continues to improve social distancing with more extreme measures.
The institute now projects Florida will see between 1,218 and 10,293 fatalities by June 21, with the median projected deaths at 3,999. That’s lower than last Wednesday’s projection of 4,357, and much lower than last Sunday’s projection of 6,770. The same model’s median projection for U.S. fatalities is 61,545, down from 81,766 for the nation projected last Sunday.
That same model still projects Florida’s daily deaths on an upward track, and the median track for fatalities will hit its peak on April 26 with 112 deaths that day before the curve turns back down.
For the nation, though, the model shows that the U.S. may already be at the top of that curve. The U.S. saw more than 2,000 deaths logged in one day between April 9-10, and daily deaths have come back down since then, although still more than 1,500 on Sunday.
As of Monday afternoon, the U.S. death toll was more than 22,800, having passed Italy for the highest in the world over the weekend. Worldwide, there are close to 1.9 million cases and more than 118,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University & Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center. More than 443,000 people worldwide have recovered from the virus.
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