COVID-19 Cases Increase By 26 In Escambia, Santa Rosa

May 9, 2020

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The number of COVID-19 cases in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties increased by 26 in the Saturday data release from the Florida Department of Health.

There were 16 new cases reported in Escambia County Friday for a total of 634 positive people. The Santa Rosa County total increase by 10 to 172.

Of the 18 deaths in Escambia County, 13 were long-term care facility residents. There have been eight deaths in Santa Rosa County, all outside long-term care facilities.

Statewide, there were 40,001 cases including 38,926 Florida residents. There have been 7,093 hospitalizations and 1,715 deaths.

  • Total cases — 634 (+16 since Friday)
  • Pensacola — 487
  • Cantonment — 41
  • Bellview — 6
  • Perdido Key — 1
  • McDavid/Walnut Hill — 1
  • Molino – 4
  • Century — 2
  • Hospitalizations:  48*
  • Deaths — 18
  • Male — 228
  • Female — 315
  • Youngest — 0
  • Oldest — 105

Santa Rosa County cases:

  • Total cases — 172 (+10 since Friday)
  • Milton — 95
  • Navarre — 33
  • Gulf Breeze — 24
  • Pace — 16
  • Jay — 2
  • Residents: 129
  • Nonresidents — 1
  • Hospitalizations — 23*
  • Deaths — 9
  • Male — 116
  • Female — 54
  • Youngest — 2 months
  • Oldest — 94

Florida cases:

  • Total cases — 40,001
  • Florida residents — 38,926
  • Deaths — 1,715
  • Hospitalizations — 7,093*

*“Hospitalizations” is a count of all laboratory confirmed cases in which an inpatient hospitalization occurred at any time during the course of illness. These people may no longer be hospitalized. This number does not represent the number of COVID-19 positive persons currently hospitalized. The FDOH does not provide a count of patients currently hospitalized.

Comments

7 Responses to “COVID-19 Cases Increase By 26 In Escambia, Santa Rosa”

  1. William Reynolds on May 10th, 2020 1:49 am

    >>.Why was the number of new cases in a long term care facility removed? I

    The Florida Department of Health removed that information from their daily report.

  2. David Huie Green on May 10th, 2020 12:59 am

    REGARDING:
    “Nobody even knows if there is such a thing as herd immunity.”

    The existence of herd immunity in general terms isn’t in question as seen by CDC definition below. Understand, it doesn’t guaranty nobody will be infected, just that they are less likely to meet anyone infectious.

    To get to that point, though, Johns Hopkins points out: “To reach herd immunity for COVID-19, likely 70% or more of the population would need to be immune. Without a vaccine, over 200 million Americans would have to get infected before we reach this threshold. Put another way, even if the current pace of the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States – with over 25,000 confirmed cases a day – it will be well into 2021 before we reach herd immunity. If current daily death rates continue,
    over half a million Americans would be dead from COVID-19 by that time.”
    https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-a-dangerous-misconception

    500,000 versus today’s 80,037 total (and I have read elsewhere it might kill 2.5 million of us rather than “just” half a million)

    If you knew who it wouldn’t kill, you might infect those and quarantine them for a few weeks. (That is basically what a vaccination — which we do not yet have — does…and without the quarantine.)

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    (Community immunity [Also known as herd immunity]:
    “A situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely. Even individuals not vaccinated (such as newborns and those with chronic illnesses) are offered some protection because the disease has little opportunity to spread within the community.”
    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/terms/glossary.html )

  3. SKB on May 9th, 2020 10:51 pm

    Why was the number of new cases in a long term care facility removed? It helped knowing the number of new cases that were possibly able to infect people in the general public outside the facilities.

  4. CW on May 9th, 2020 8:32 pm

    Nobody even knows if there is such a thing as herd immunity. Some reports out of Asia report people being infected a second time.

  5. Doug Cox on May 9th, 2020 5:55 pm

    I hope we are safe. I wish first responders to be safe from the virus that we keep spreading re

  6. Herd immunity on May 9th, 2020 5:38 pm

    Wear a mask. We are beginning herd immunity. No life is worth where we are heading. Stay safe.

  7. Lee on May 9th, 2020 5:04 pm

    2,500 new cases in Florida just since Monday. What if we had a real plan for testing?

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