Florida Sets COVID-19 Increase Record For Third Straight Day; Escambia Cases Increase By 43

June 20, 2020

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There were 43 new positive COVID-19 cases reported Saturday in Escambia County, as Florida again set a new record high for the most cases reported in a single day.

The number of cases in Escambia County is now 1,170 and Santa Rosa County increased by 12 to 342.

Of the 41 deaths in Escambia County, 32 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.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Florida jumped by 4,049 on Saturday, a record for a daily increase.

Statewide, there were 93,737 cases including 91,670 Florida residents. There have been 12,939 hospitalizations* and 3,144 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 — 1,170 (+43 since Friday)
  • Pensacola — 819
  • Cantonment — 66
  • Bellview — 6
  • Perdido Key — 1
  • McDavid — 2
  • Walnut Hill — 1
  • Molino – 16
  • Century — 7
  • Perdido Key – 1
  • Hospitalizations:  73*
  • Deaths — 41
  • Male — 373
  • Female — 516
  • Youngest — 0
  • Oldest — 105

Santa Rosa County cases:

  • Total cases — 342 (+12 since Friday)
  • Milton — 189
  • Navarre — 56
  • Gulf Breeze — 46
  • Pace — 24
  • Jay — 4
  • Residents: 129
  • Nonresidents — 1
  • Hospitalizations — 26*
  • Deaths — 9
  • Male — 211
  • Female — 114
  • Youngest — 2 months
  • Oldest — 98

Florida cases:

  • Total cases — 93,737
  • Florida residents — 91,670
  • Deaths — 3,144
  • Hospitalizations — 12,939

*“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

6 Responses to “Florida Sets COVID-19 Increase Record For Third Straight Day; Escambia Cases Increase By 43”

  1. Gloria Stanton on June 22nd, 2020 8:40 am

    I am a 30 yr experienced pipe welder who has been waiting on my Florida unemployment and after 11 weeks of nothing out there …phone or computer…to assure me help is on the way….so before I lose my home of 15 years I had to go back to work…and the job I found is pipe welding on an expansion going on at a university that has to be done before school starts…and after starting the job I found out one of the buildings on campus had 36 positive cases of corona virus ….you can bet I am wearing my face mask…i am 60 years old…i am at risk…but I have no choice since I didn’t get any help thru the government shutdown because of the messed up Florida Unemployment system..DOE…so if I catch it …I can only blame. The faulty unemployment system in Florida…cant even tell am I went back to work….its been a tough 3 months…as I am sure others are having to put them selves at risk as well ..because they didn’t get what the government allocated and promised they would receive….but I am wearing my mask…

  2. Sherry Ewy on June 22nd, 2020 7:13 am

    That’s a lot. For an area that refuses to wear masks in Publix, this isn’t good.

  3. Rufus Lowgun on June 21st, 2020 7:54 am

    Can we take another look at the wisdom of having tens of thousands of people from all over the country coming to Jacksonville just as we are getting ready to send our kids back to school yet?

  4. Paul on June 21st, 2020 12:11 am

    The pandemic of stupidity continues to boost the number of cases of covid-19.when precautions are constantly being ignored by so many. Clearly many are rolling the dice with all our lives…so much for being in this together crap.

  5. David Huie Green on June 20th, 2020 10:13 pm

    REGARDING:
    “Until folks get their brains wrapped around the science and doing what we need to do, we will be on this same disastrous path of the problem getting bigger and more costly.”

    In other words, “WE IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE.”

    I was watching a fellow at a political rally in Tulsa today convinced he couldn’t get infected but if he did that Hydroxychloroquine would quickly cure it. When the interviewer pointed that it had been proven ineffective and somewhat extra likely to kill and FDA had withdrawn approval, the fellow explained that was all just a misunderstanding and would be cleared up soon.

    And then they all go home and share what they picked up with their family, friends, and/or neighbors.

    The danger of trusting a liar and the danger of distrusting those committed to protecting you..

    David for an even better world

  6. Henry Coe on June 20th, 2020 3:49 pm

    Gee, it looks like opening things up back to normal in May was a bad idea? It seems like not going back into a lockdown will be disastrous?
    Being that the more people who have it the more people there are who can catch it and the numbers we see today are really showing us what happened 1 1/2 to 3 weeks ago and the numbers in 3 weeks are going to reflect this big increase and spreadability, plus another increase of some size from BLM protesters.
    I’m pretty sure without locking things back down right now, that we can forget about the idea of reopening schools in Aug or Sept.
    Ignoring this problem will only make it worse. It’s about science and not about politics or economics. Until folks get their brains wrapped around the science and doing what we need to do, we will be on this same disastrous path of the problem getting bigger and more costly.

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