Florida's cases rose by 9,535 after six days more than 10,000, as deaths increased by 130, the lowest since 108 in two weeks. Total daily tests 136,824. Daily first-time positivity rates rise: Florida to 8.25%, Palm Beach County to 8.33%.
Volunteers with Unified Dream Foundation, a veteran-owned nonprofit organization based in Royal Palm Beach, helped improve the Delray Beach Children's Garden.
Volunteers with Unified Dream Foundation, a veteran-owned nonprofit organization based in Royal Palm Beach, helped improve the Delray Beach Children's Garden.
Florida's first-time positivity rate declined to lowest level in nearly two months as Florida's daily coronavirus tests reached an alltime high of 220,276. Residents' deaths rose by 155, one day after a near-record 272, as cases increased by 12,311, compared with 13,719.
Straining to handle record numbers of COVID-19 patients, hundreds of the nation’s intensive care units are running out of space and supplies and competing to hire temporary traveling nurses at soaring rates.
Some seniors waiting in line outside in the sun at a distribution site in southern Palm Beach County fainted and had to be taken to the hospital Friday.
In between doses, experts say the Pfizer vaccine is 50% effective. It takes at least two weeks after the second dose to receive the full benefit of 95% protection.
Florida's coronavirus deaths rose by 272, just 4 from the record on Aug. 11, with the total toll of residents passing 25,000, as cases rose by 13,719, less than 1,000 more day before. Total daily tests: 131,117. Daily first-time positivity rates rise: Florida to 12.37%, Palm Beach County to 10.92.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he hopes the state will soon receive more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine through new efforts from the Biden Administration.
Former President Donald Trump's administration gave Florida’s health-care system one last parting gift before he left office Wednesday to return to his adopted home state.
