Tuesday: Large Number Of Test Results Reported Locally With Low COVID-19 Positivity Rate

September 29, 2020

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On a day where with one of the largest single day number of tests results reported in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, the COVID-19 positivity rate was at a low of 2.2%.

On Tuesday, the Florida Department of Health reported three additional deaths and 89 new COVID-19 cases total in the two counties.

Here is the latest data:

Escambia County cases:

Total cases: 12,319 (+70)
Non-Florida residents: 1,111
Total deaths: 230 (+2)
Long-term care facility deaths : 109
Current hospitalizations: 49 (+2)
Number of tests last day: 2,896
Percent positive last day: 2.2%
Percent positive last week: 3.5%

Escambia County cases by location:

Pensacola: 9,027 (+60)
Century: 933 (+2)
—-including 773 Century prison inmates
Cantonment: 913 (+4)
Molino: 145
McDavid: 73
Walnut Hill: 18
Bellview: 16
Gonzalez: 7
Perdido Key: 7

Santa Rosa County cases:

Total cases: 5,331 (+19)
Non-Florida residents: 49
Total deaths: 77 (+1)
Long-term care facility deaths: 17
Cumulative Hospitalizations: 314*
Number of tests last day: 790
Percent positive last day: 2.2%

Santa County cases  by location:

Milton: 2,796 (+4)
Gulf Breeze: 772 (+6)
Navarre: 666 (+1)
Pace: 439 (+6)
Jay: 149 (+1)
Bagdad: 12

Florida cases:

Total cases: 704,568
Florida residents: 696,171
Deaths: 14,143
Hospitalizations: 43,855*

*“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. Most of these people are longer be 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.

*The Florida Department of Health does not have a clear standard or definition of “recovered” and does not report a number of recovered individuals.

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

Comments

2 Responses to “Tuesday: Large Number Of Test Results Reported Locally With Low COVID-19 Positivity Rate”

  1. Alan on September 30th, 2020 8:55 am

    @Dean, No one has directed people to stop washing their hands, wearing a mask, or social distancing. No one is required to eat out at restaurants or go to bars and nightclubs.

    The virus being under control, has always been about not overrunning hospitals (flattening the curve) and protecting those most vulnerable. Provided those things are being accomplished, and they are, there is no reason to keep parts of the States economy shut down. People need jobs to pay their bills.

  2. Dean on September 30th, 2020 12:15 am

    If we kept doing what we’re doing it would be even lower. Unfortunately we have a governor that takes his marching orders from the unhinged man in the Oval Office so we can expect to see the same rise as we saw during the last “reopening.” When the bars and restaurants go back to normal, with no social distancing, no masks, etc. then the virus that doesn’t have a political leaning one way or the other will soar back. It hasn’t gone away, nobody has wished it away, and the only truth we know is that the low positives we see right now are and have been a result of those 3 things that we know work….hand washing, masks and social distancing. Take those away as DeSanttis is promoting and directing and you again ask for tital failure to keep the virus under control.

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