The state reported roughly 7,400 new infections this week, which is the lowest level since April 9, 2020, just a month after the pandemic was declared.
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Despite no new data, COVID deaths and cases across Florida still appear to be receding.
COVID case counts and hospitalizations are still dropping across Florida, some at levels not seen since the fall.
The key wastewater-analysis indicator also shows viral counts in Palm Beach County at pre-surge levels
COVID cases and hospitalizations have fallen nearly to levels last seen before the winter surge caused by offshoots of the virus’ omicron variant.
Infections and hospitalizations from coronavirus continue to fall from their early January peaks.
Hospitals are discharging more COVID patients than they’re admitting. Sewage tests going in the right direction.
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Florida’s hospitalizations are at three-month highs while people get closer with less protection – masks and vaccinations – against the disease.
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The analysis by the state Health Department examines only 20 deaths among men in the 18-39 age group within four weeks on vaccination.
The newest COVID vaccine boosters aren’t necessarily weak against new subvariants since it targets mutations of omicron.
More than 1,600 people in Florida died of COVID-19 in August. But in the state’s hospitals, there were more than 1,000 fewer cases than in July.
Data from water-treatment facilities in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Orange and Pinellas counties show viral levels continuing their weekslong plunge.
COVID viral particles found in wastewater continue to drop since mid-July in some Florida areas including Palm Beach, Pinellas and Orange counties.
The numbers of new cases logged by the Florida Health Department isn’t changing much, but sewage levels belie that picture.
Florida Department of Health officials wouldn’t say why the COVID vaccine total rose after months of decline. The increase was the biggest since December.
Still, the death toll of 262 people in a week is lower than most weeks during the pandemic. The state’s caseload rose by more than 76,000 infections.