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Escambia, Santa Rosa COVID-19 Case Count Increases By 20 On Monday
May 18, 2020
The number of COVID-19 cases reported in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties increased by eight on Sunday.
The number of cases in Escambia County increased by 11 to 707, and Santa Rosa was up by two to 185.
Of the 20 deaths in Escambia County, 15 have been long-term care facility residents or staff. There have been eight deaths in Santa Rosa County, seven at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility and none in long-term care facilities.
Statewide, there were 46,442 cases including 45, 208 Florida residents. There have been 8,304 hospitalizations and 1,997 deaths.
- Total cases — 707 (+18 since Sunday)
- Pensacola — 527
- Cantonment — 47
- Bellview — 6
- Perdido Key — 1
- McDavid/Walnut Hill — 1
- Molino – 4
- Century — 2
- Hospitalizations: 60*
- Deaths — 20
- Male — 248
- Female — 343
- Youngest — 0
- Oldest — 105
Santa Rosa County cases:
- Total cases — 185 (+2 since Sunday)
- Milton — 103
- Navarre — 35
- Gulf Breeze — 26
- Pace — 16
- Jay — 2
- Residents: 129
- Nonresidents — 1
- Hospitalizations — 23*
- Deaths — 9
- Male — 123
- Female — 60
- Youngest — 2 months
- Oldest — 94
Florida cases:
- Total cases — 46,442
- Florida residents — 45,208
- Deaths — 1,997
- Hospitalizations — 8,304*
*“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.
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6 Responses to “Escambia, Santa Rosa COVID-19 Case Count Increases By 20 On Monday”
Most of these cases… are coming from nursing homes!
And yet I go to the grocery store (only out of necessity) in Cantonment and 90% of the people in there are wearing no PPE including the cashiers! I just don’t understand why people won’t take this seriously. I cringe going in any store and I have my mask, gloves and sanitizer wipes (to wipe the buggy). I don’t care how “stupid” I look to others (this is one of the excuses I’ve heard), I am trying my best to protect myself, my family and my friends. I pray the positive cases soon start to level out and then begin decreasing as forecasted.
But everyone please think of others when you go out in public and wear your PPE (or at least a mask)-my grandbabies lives depend on it and so do yours. If you get the virus from not “suiting up” and you gave it to your mother, father, grandmother, grand children – imagine how that would make you feel.
And mothers – what in the world are yall doing – taking your young toddler kids in Dollar General running around everywhere and touching everything (and of course, no PPE at all on them). What are you thinking -THESE ARE YOUR CHILDREN!!! You are their only protector – please be more careful with their lives whether you are with yours or not. Just breaks my heart to see these babies so exposed to whatever or whoever may be in public.
God be with each and every one of you.
There’s about 500,000 people between the two counties. Do the math.
Along with their HERD IMMUNITY will be HERD deaths. Not like any care cuz currently most all are old or poor health.
But with changes of how it’s now affecting the young. Afterwards showing exposed like 3 weeks prior and THEY are having some totally different issues. We have only just begun. Seems Bible MIGHT JUST be true
I saw a comment about “waiting to see the number of cases go down”. Well, that’s not gonna happen, they may not go up as fast or they may level off but they’re not going to go down. I had to bite my tongue and just not comment. Maybe that was what the person meant.
Anyone who thinks this is over may want to think twice.