The numbers from COVID-19 hospitalizations, case counts and most sewage readings have declined in the past week, continuing a trend that started late last month.
The CDC no longer recommends indoor masking in counties such as Palm Beach, Broward, Orange, Leon or most places in the Florida Panhandle. But the agency still recommends it in Miami-Dade, Duval, Hillsborough and Pinellas counties as well as smaller counties such as Sarasota, Alachua, Polk, Martin and St. Lucie., however, remains"high" in all of Florida's 67 counties, the CDC said Thursday, because recent COVID case counts and rates of infection remain high at 16.2%.
While Florida's caseload falls, its weekly death sums are rising, as fatalities can take weeks to process and enter official statistics. Florida's COVID death toll increased by an average 507 people per week since Aug. 12, the highest level since the two weeks ending March 25. Vaccinations statewide continue to climb sluggishly. About 16 million Florida residents have received at least one shot, state health officials reported Friday.
About 72% of all eligible residents have gotten vaccinated, a ratio mostly unchanged during this past summer, as subvariants of the coronavirus' omicron strain swept Florida.found by combing through records from 2020 where physicians classified someone's cause of death as COVID, but the state Health Department did not.
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