Saturday Report: One Additional COVID-19 Death, 211 New Cases In Escambia County

July 18, 2020

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One additional COVID-19 death and 211 new case were report Saturday in Escambia County by the Florida Department of Health.

The fatality was a 81-year old male long-term care facility resident.

Escambia County cases increased 5,557 and Santa Rosa cases were up by 82 to 1,822.

Of the 1,170 tests results returned on Friday, 14.2% were positive in Escambia County and 21.8% were positive from 301 tests in Santa Rosa County. Over the past week, the overall average positivity rate for Escambia County is 12.2%.

As of Saturday, there were 202 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Escambia County, according to data from the three local hospitals.

Of the 57 deaths in Escambia County, 41 have been long-term care facility residents or staff. There have been 13 deaths in Santa Rosa County, seven of those at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility and on in a long-term care facility.

Statewide, there were 337,569 cases including 333,201 Florida residents. There have been 20,632 hospitalizations* and 4,895 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 — 5,557 (+211 since Friday)
Non-Florida residents — 655
Pensacola — 4,296 (+170)
Cantonment — 386 (+13)
Molino— 62 (+1)
Century — 41 (+3)
McDavid — 24 (+1)
Bellview — 9
Walnut Hill — 6
Perdido Key — 4
Gonzalez — 2
Current hospitalizations: 202 (-5)
Deaths — 57 (+1)
Male — 2,160
Female — 2,620
Youngest — 0
Oldest — 105
Median Age — 37

Santa Rosa County cases:

Total cases — 1,822 (+82 since Friday)
Non-Florida residents — 11
Milton — 764 (+36)
Gulf Breeze — 353 (+24)
Navarre — 299 (+7)
Pace — 170 (+5)
Jay — 58 (+3)
Bagdad — 3
Cumulative Hospitalizations — 101*
Deaths — 13
Male — 865
Female — 909
Youngest — 2 months
Oldest — 101
Median Age — 35

Florida cases:

Total cases — 337,569
Florida residents — 333,201
Deaths — 4,895
Hospitalizations — 20,632*

*“Hospitalizations” in the statewide and Santa Rosa County totals 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. The Escambia County number is current data compiled each day from the local hospitals.

Comments

12 Responses to “Saturday Report: One Additional COVID-19 Death, 211 New Cases In Escambia County”

  1. Alexander on July 19th, 2020 3:52 am

    It’s amazing at how many of you geniuses complain about a very few percentage points, or how numbers are reported, but are too ignorant and uncaring about everyone around you by not wearing a mask when you venture out of your caves. I suppose you figure if you stick your fingers in your ears and hum long enough it’ll magically disappear, just like your joke of a president believes. Well the truth is numbers are steadily climbing and multiplying more and more every day, and no matter how much you and the soon to be former president say it’s over, the fact is we’re a long way from this being over. What’s worse is the numbers could be going down instead of up had you actually listened to the scientists who said wear masks and follow social distancing. Thanks alot, this time it’s NOT the Chinese to blame, but you and your “stable genius” president.

  2. William Reynolds on July 18th, 2020 10:05 pm

    >>I meant no disrespect, I’m aware that you are not the one posting those numbers. I was just curious as to why they’re never right. If the state is doing them in a midnight to midnight period they should post their numbers as such.

    Agree. But the data is in two different reports they do two different ways. We pulled information in this daily update from at least five different reports. It’s not all in one place.

  3. David Huie Green on July 18th, 2020 8:45 pm

    CONSIDERING:
    Here’s some math
    “Total % deaths of persons with Covid in Escambia county. 56/ 318,316=.017%.”

    “Total % deaths of non long care citizens in Escambia county 16/318,316=.005%”

    That is indeed math.

    The problem with the math is that it is meaningless. It takes those who have died of the infection and divides it by those who have never been infected and those who have recently been infected and those who were infected since the beginning.

    Those who have never been infected may be infected in the future. Most of those who were infected a while ago have gotten well or died; some are still sick months later but we have hope they will survive. Those who were infected within the past two weeks are most up in the air as to their outcomes.

    The fact that the numbers keep rising SHOULD get across the fact that it is not over. One number we don’t have is how many were infected without us knowing because they weren’t showing symptoms. That would require tests the federal government has kept in short supply. It may be many. It may be few.

    Without it the actual fatality rate can’t be calculated.

    David for math competence

  4. Matt on July 18th, 2020 8:03 pm

    I meant no disrespect, I’m aware that you are not the one posting those numbers. I was just curious as to why they’re never right. If the state is doing them in a midnight to midnight period they should post their numbers as such.

  5. Thanks for the math on July 18th, 2020 5:42 pm

    Finally someone that gets the real math. You must not be a journalist.

  6. SP on July 18th, 2020 5:24 pm

    @ “MATH”

    Current infection rates in Florida are extremely high with a AVERAGE of 14.2 percent tests positive for new infections over the past two weeks.

  7. Here’s some math on July 18th, 2020 4:27 pm

    Escambia county Florida population. 313,316

    Total Covid cases. 5,557

    % infected with Covid. 5557 / 313,316 = 1.7 %

    Total % deaths of persons Positive with Covid. 56/ 5557= 1 %

    Total % deaths of persons with Covid in Escambia county. 56/ 318,316=.017%.

    Total % deaths of non long care citizens in Escambia county 16/318,316=.005%

  8. William Reynolds on July 18th, 2020 2:59 pm

    >>Has anyone else noticed that their math never seems to be correct

    It’s not that math….it’s time periods.

    211 positives in the Saturday report….the report from the state comes out 10-11 a.m. and include the previous 24 hours.

    “Of the 1,170 tests results returned on Friday, 14.2% were positive in Escambia County…..”

    (So that would be 194, not 211)

    That’s because Friday is the 24 period midnight to midnight. That’s the difference.

    (It’s not us…it’s how the state reports.)

  9. Henry Coe on July 18th, 2020 2:52 pm

    It might be that when it gets to the point that it is that blatantly obvious, it may be to late with too much spread to be able to contain the spread like we were on the right track in doing in April?

  10. Wear a mask please on July 18th, 2020 2:15 pm

    We are heading toward a depression if we not not do our civic duty and wear a mask. We cannot afford to keep shutting down. Our economy depends on us doing our duty to wear a mask.

  11. Matt on July 18th, 2020 2:10 pm

    Has anyone else noticed that their math never seems to be correct. 211 positive cases out of 1,170 tests is 18.03%. That’s a tad higher than the 14.2% that they have thrown out there. Is there any way to find where the discrepancy comes in?

  12. SP on July 18th, 2020 12:47 pm

    4 Employees and myself at my work//restaurant tested positive. They haven’t closed. Haven’t cleaned. This will keep getting worse till people start taking it seriously. Covid 19 is NOTHING like the flu. I guess some of you will have to get it too to understand…
    Seems like capital, profit and the economy mean more than our personal health and safety.

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