Nine More COVID-19 Deaths Reported In Escambia And Santa Rosa

September 10, 2020

There were 104 COVID-19 confirmed positives and nine additional deaths reported in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties Thursday, according to the Florida Department of Health.

The Escambia County deaths were two 79-year old males, and men ages 69, 76, 81 and 87. Two were long-term care facility residents. The Santa Rosa County deaths were males age 81 and 82 and an 85-year old female.

Escambia County cases increased by 68 to 11,702. An additional 36 cases brought the Santa Rosa County total to 5,026.

Of the 1,285 tests results returned in Escambia County, 4.5% were positive, and 8.1% were positive from 415 tests in Santa Rosa County. Over the past week, the overall average positivity rate for Escambia County is 5.4%.

There were 89 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized in Escambia County as of Thursday, according to data from the three local hospitals.

Of the 200 deaths in Escambia County, 95 have been long-term care facility residents or staff. There have been 63 deaths in Santa Rosa County, at least seven of those at the Blackwater River Correctional Facility and 14 in a long-term care facilities.

Statewide, there were 654,731 cases including 647,318 Florida residents. There have been 40,807 hospitalizations* and 12,326 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 — 11,702 (+68)
Non-Florida residents — 1,037
Pensacola —8,560 (+50)
Century — 925 (+2)
—-including 771 Century prison inmates
Cantonment — 850 (+6)
Molino— 136
McDavid — 68
Walnut Hill — 17
Bellview — 12
Gonzalez — 7
Perdido Key — 7
Current hospitalizations: 89 (+5)
Deaths — 200 (+6)
Male — 5,149
Female — 5,419
Youngest — 0
Oldest — 105
Median Age — 39

Santa Rosa County cases:

Total cases — 5,026 (+36)
Non-Florida residents — 49
Milton — 2,673 (+13)
Gulf Breeze — 721 (+7)
Navarre — 627 (+3)
Pace — 395 (+5)
Jay — 139
Bagdad — 11 (+2)
Cumulative Hospitalizations — 294*
Deaths — 63 (+3)
Male — 2,759
Female — 2,209
Youngest — 2 months
Oldest — 101
Median Age — 40

Florida cases:

Total cases — 654,731
Florida residents — 647,318
Deaths — 12,326
Hospitalizations — 40,807*

*“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

6 Responses to “Nine More COVID-19 Deaths Reported In Escambia And Santa Rosa”

  1. Lisa Watson on September 12th, 2020 12:29 pm

    If the people who are dead, hadn’t contracted the virus, 99.999 percent of them would be alive. End of story.

    You trying to downplay this virus, are the reason American can’t have nice things right now, and the reason 200,000 people are dead. You don’t care about anyone but yourselves, not even your families. It’s all about you and your comfort, and your ego. Your attitude = murder. End of story.

    If you want to be patriotic, stop worrying about a piece of cloth that doesn’t die, and start worrying about your fellow Americans who are dying from this virus, and wear a damn mask!

  2. Lee on September 11th, 2020 7:10 pm

    Seems the willingness of some to write off deaths of the elderly or those with underlying conditions isn’t much different from the death panels they talked so much about a few years back. As far as cause of death, if you have cancer you might die from any number of other ailments. Cancer might not kill you, but you could die from pneumonia. Cause of death would still be pneumonia. COVID-19 isn’t an either or situation, it’s in ADDITION to seasonal flu, pneumonia, etc. Wear a mask.

  3. Bewildered on September 11th, 2020 9:39 am

    This should not be a political football at all. Escambia County is counting actual current hospitalizations, Santa Rosa County cumulative and such discrepancies on and on. No clear statistics are available. All over the world people are dying WITH Corona not FROM it. Sort of like pneumonia – you are suffering from an illness and are already bedridden, then if pneumonia sets in it’s often fatal.
    A good indicator how bad this virus is would be to compare the number of deaths in this country to 2919 ! How many Americans died during the same time frame last year of natural causes In comparison to 2020.

  4. Bob on September 11th, 2020 8:36 am

    I’m not a senior citizen. I am not immunocompromised. I don’t have a pre-existing condition. Even if I contracted COVID-19, I would probably be okay.

    I still wear a mask, wash my hands, and practice social distancing because this isn’t about me. It’s about protecting my neighbors.

    Act like an American. Wear a mask.

  5. Susan on September 11th, 2020 2:06 am

    K-///So what you’re saying is as long as they are seniors and it doesn’t affect you that’s to be expected. That attitude in this county is what’s got us in this if it’s not my age group or happened to my family member it’s not a big deal. I had a beloved family member with covid sent to a Tallahassee nursing home because the designated covid recovery nursing home in Pensacola was full. I’m so tired of the self centered righteous Trumper pseudo statisticians.

  6. k on September 10th, 2020 7:13 pm

    Of the half of the deceased who were NOT in nursing homes, how many of those were of advanced age but not in nursing homes?

    That would be a real telling number. As it sits right now, for Escambia County, based on the 11,000 cases of the virus, and right at 200 deceased, that’s a 1.8 percent casualty rate.

    When you factor out the disproportionate impacts on the highest at-risk group, what risk is the majority of the population facing?

    That’s the answer a lot of us want, but are not getting.