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Escambia Has Record High 155 New COVID-19 Cases And One Death; Florida Smashes Daily Record With 8,942 New Cases
June 26, 2020
THIS STORY IS OUTDATED. SEE NORTHESCAMBIA.COM FOR THE LATEST NUMBERS.
Escambia County and the state smashed daily records for the increase in COVID-19 cases reported on Friday as another Escambia County death was reported.
The number of Escambia County cases increased by 155, far exceeding the previous one day total of 92 set on Thursday. The Escambia County fatality was a 74-year old female long-term care facility resident.
The state smashed the old one-day record with 8,942, topping the previous high of 5,508 that was reported on Wednesday.
Escambia County cases increased to 1,559. Santa Rosa cases were up by 26 to 437.
Of the 44 deaths in Escambia County, 34 have been long-term care facility residents or staff. There have been nine deaths in Santa Rosa County, seven of those at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility and none in long-term care facilities.
Statewide, there were 122,960 cases including 120,574 Florida residents. There have been 13,987 hospitalizations* and 3,366 deaths. The Florida Department of Health does not have a clear standard or definition of “recovered” and does not report a number of recovered individuals.
Escambia County cases:
- Total cases — 1,559 (+155 since Thursday)
- Pensacola — 1,135
- Cantonment — 89
- Bellview — 6
- Perdido Key — 1
- McDavid — 2
- Walnut Hill — 2
- Molino – 16
- Century — 10
- Hospitalizations: 82*
- Deaths — 44
- Male — 442
- Female — 610
- Youngest — 0
- Oldest — 105
Santa Rosa County cases:
- Total cases — 437 (+26 since Thursday)
- Milton — 223
- Navarre — 71
- Gulf Breeze — 67
- Pace — 37
- Jay — 5
- Residents: 129
- Nonresidents — 1
- Hospitalizations — 27*
- Deaths — 9
- Male — 228
- Female — 137
- Youngest — 2 months
- Oldest — 98
Florida cases:
- Total cases — 122,960
- Florida residents — 120,574
- Deaths — 3,336
- Hospitalizations — 13,987
*“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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13 Responses to “Escambia Has Record High 155 New COVID-19 Cases And One Death; Florida Smashes Daily Record With 8,942 New Cases”
I love northescambia.com for the news that they post. Wonderful site.
Our Govener is just as smart as the President let’s wait until so many people get sick and so die . When is enough going to be enough for him to take action it seems like the money and economy is more important but if everyone is sick and we lose our people the economy is no good . We all need to pray for our country
Wearing a mask is better than being on a ventilator! If you don’t wear a mask and get sick do NOT seek help.
The odds are much higher that you will be assaulted, raped, burglarized or murdered in this county than get seriously ill or die from Covid. Just putting things into perspective.
According to NorthEscambia.com:
The number of murders in Escambia County increased 12 in 2018 to 27 in 2019, robberies increased from 293 to 337, aggravated assaults were up from 1.769 to 1.828, and burglaries increased from 1,769 to 1,828.
Rapes decreased from 224 to 186, larcenies were down from 7,203 to 6,724 and motor vehicle thefts slipped from 679 to 650.
The clearance rate, the percentage of crimes solved, improved from 31.9% in 2018 to 32.5% in 2019
Of the 27 murders in 2019, 24 were in the county and three were in the City of Pensacola.
Here it is a pandemic and you have people saying I am not wearing a mask until I am forced to wear one? Stay at home if you do not want to be near non masked people? I have your names on my list of people I want to visit if I catch the CV 19……….
REGARDING:
“Mask are nothing but an idea that sounds good but no data to back it up”
There is some truth to that. I haven’t seen anyone say, “Wearing this mask will reduce your probability of spreading SARS-CoV-2 to someone three feet from you by 27.3% for fifteen minutes of exposure,” (or whatever) or, “That mask will completely eliminate any risk you will give or get COVID-19.”
There are too many variables. Different materials. Different weaves. Different exposure times. Different breathing rates. Different fits.
To actually gather the data, you would have to have several thousand infected people wearing assorted masks and several thousand uninfected people standing in front of them. Then see which ones got infected. Human experimentation. Anything less is a projection and a guess.
For that guess to be reasonable, you might have people who were not exposed wear assorted masks and see how many droplets escaped through the fabric or around the sides versus how much came out without a mask. Even then you wouldn’t know if a single droplet would have enough virus to infect or what minimum number was required.
Without that, you’re still guessing. Does that mean you know it wouldn’t help? No.
The National Institutes of Health did an approximation back in 2012 which showed there should some protection with some methods approaching 100%. They suggested further testing but I don’t see where anybody listened.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3306645/ (Figure 7)
Should you assume because you don’t know to three significant figures how much good it would do that you shouldn’t bother? Some think that way.
Mask are nothing but an idea that sounds good but no data to back it up none zero.
Please stop going to dine in restaurants. People think restaurants are better than bars? Even with masks and social distancing, employees are still getting sick, make minimum wage, don’t have health insurance, and are not allowed to call out. Especially with so many people not going back to work, restaurants are short handed and many restaurant employees are currently waiting on results because their coworkers have tested positive. Several of the positive results recently have been restaurant employees, but dining rooms are still seating because people are going out instead of taking it to-go. We appreciate your patronage and you spending your hard earned dollar with your favorite restaurant, but we have families, too!
Some of those who do not die ARE sick 70 days or more.
Some never knew they were infected, symptoms were so mild.
Many bet on winning the one in 302,575,350 chance to win Mega Millions; millions lose.
The rough odds of winning the COVID-19 “lottery” are at least 1 – 127,211/1,055,801 or 0.8795, 88% roughly. (1- (dead in usa divided by recovered in usa) ). More will recover, more will die. 431 have lost, died, today in America. 649 lost yesterday. 812 lost two days ago.
Your chances of winning with COVID-19 are much higher than of winning the lottery. The difference is that you lose a dollar or so when you lose the Lottery, whereas you lose your life if you lose with COVID-19.
As Harry Callahan explained while pointing his .44 Magnum at the gentleman, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky?” And remember, it isn’t just pointed at you.
David for Clint Eastwood
Due to greed for money to open the beaches, bars and restaurants…. here we stand with the increase of Covid!
I will wear a mask when they are required. Until then, you wear your mask and I’ll stay as far away as i can, but without one. Otherwise just stay home.
Please wear masks. Everyone, including those of us who are healthy, are being impacted by this virus in some way. It seemed we were making progress until more people got out in public, many without masks. If we can abide by traffic laws (meant for all of us, not just drivers) we can certainly wear masks. Unless we get this under control, we can forget about schools, etc., opening. We were warned about the risk of opening too quickly and letting down our guard about masks and distancing, and here we are. And this is not the second wave; we are still in the first one. It’s clear to me that many elected officials have been negligent in their handling of this crisis. That said, the public acting responsibly is our best chance to get all of us back to work, school, etc. Be safe and look out for one another.
All responsible County Department heads please act with the interest of your employees, their families and your patrons health as your # 1 priority. Your leadership is appreciated. Waiting is not Leadership.