Sunday Report: Escambia COVID-19 Cases Up 211, No New Deaths

August 9, 2020

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There were 211 new COVID-19 cases reported Sunday in Escambia County by by the Florida Department of Health.

There were no additional deaths reported in Escambia or Santa Rosa counties.

Escambia County cases increased to 9,508. The increase of 211 included 93 additional Century Correctional Institution inmates. An additional 82 cases brought the Santa Rosa County total to 3,939.

Of the 901 tests results returned on Saturday in Escambia County, 18.4% were positive, and 14.5% were positive from 471 tests in Santa Rosa County. Over the past week, the overall average positivity rate for Escambia County is 16.3% (increased skewed by a large number of Century prison inmates).

There were 193 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Escambia County as of Saturday, according to data from the three local hospitals.

Of the 115 deaths in Escambia County, 66 have been long-term care facility residents or staff. There have been 36 deaths in Santa Rosa County, at least seven of those at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility and seven in a long-term care facilities.

Statewide, there were 532,806 cases including 527,036 Florida residents. There have been 30,505 hospitalizations* and 8,186 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 — 9,508 (+211 since Saturday)
Non-Florida residents — 893
Pensacola —7,003 (+93)
Cantonment — 652 (+15)
Century — 667 (+71)
—-including 595 Century prison inmates
Molino— 105 (+3)
McDavid — 48 (+3)
Walnut Hill — 13
Bellview — 10
Gonzalez — 7
Perdido Key — 5
Current hospitalizations: 193 (-7)
Deaths — 120
Male — 4,108
Female — 4,390
Youngest — 0
Oldest — 105
Median Age — 38

Santa Rosa County cases:

Total cases — 3,939 (+82 since Saturday)
Non-Florida residents — 31
Milton — 2,190 (+33)
Gulf Breeze — 576 (+7)
Navarre — 472 (+8)
Pace — 298 (+13)
Jay — 100 (+3)
Bagdad — 9 (+1)
Cumulative Hospitalizations — 190*
Deaths — 37
Male — 2,244
Female — 1,649
Youngest — 2 months
Oldest — 101
Median Age — 39

Florida cases:

Total cases — 532,806
Florida residents — 527,036
Deaths — 8,186
Hospitalizations — 30,505*

*“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.
**Data Sources: Florida Department of Health, Escambia County, City of Pensacola, local hospitals.

Comments

5 Responses to “Sunday Report: Escambia COVID-19 Cases Up 211, No New Deaths”

  1. Dean on August 10th, 2020 10:35 am

    Well I have to disagree about the masks. First I do quite a bit of just driving around and everywhere I go especially in Santa Rosa county people are in groups not wearing masks, not socially distancing. I believe it’s one of the very reasons we’ve been seeing such increases and continue to see them. I ask anyone questioning the effectiveness of masks if they would have surgery with nobody including the surgeon in the operating room wearing a mask? It’s not a fantasy folks. We KNOW the effectiveness of masks to prohibit germ spreading! Don’t be so ignorant! Just tell the truth. You don’t wear one because you could care less about others or yourself or you are just incredibly ignorant, or you just you have no ability to self discipline…or a combination of all those things. Just tell the TRUTH. It will set you free.

  2. Peaceout on August 10th, 2020 7:28 am

    And how long has the mask mandate in place? Yet the numbers keep going up. When out I do wear face covering and for the most part I see everyone else wearing one, yet the numbers keep going up. I know someone who practiced all the precautionsat work-masks, gloves, and still contracted Covid.

  3. William Reynolds on August 9th, 2020 10:32 pm

    >>Please let me know if Bratt is considered to be a part of Century or Walnut Hill.

    Bratt has a Century zip code.

  4. Emily on August 9th, 2020 9:54 pm

    Please let me know if Bratt is considered to be a part of Century or Walnut Hill. Thank you for your diligent reporting on the COVID 19 cases. I hope that a vaccine or cure will be developed soon. I read that people who have the Blood Type O are better able to fight the virus than other blood types. I’m hoping that by wearing masks and having O+ blood will give me some protection. I just don’t understand why people are refusing to wear masks to know this thing out. We should be doing everything poyto keep each other safe. The people who are turning the mask wearing into a political issue are just beyond reasonable. I don’t know when Americans became so bitter and angry with each other, but it needs to stop. United we stand, divided we fall. And we will fall, if we don’t start trying to compromise with each other and quit making the other side seem like demons. The politicians created this divide in order to control us. We need to show them that we are all Americans, and they are serving us, not the other way around. They seem to think that the taxpayers’ money belongs to them. Thomas Jefferson said that when the government forgets who they serve, then it’s time for them to be removed and replaced with a new one.

  5. LR on August 9th, 2020 2:07 pm

    Thank you for your honest reporting. On Saturday, Channel Three news reported over 500 new cases in Escambia County, however they never mentioned over half or those were from the Century prison. Although they did not lie to the public, they also didn’t tell all of the truth. Again, thanks for reporting ALL of the news.

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