Coronavirus update – June 16th
Bottom Line: This daily update is designed to put everything in perspective with straight-forward facts. No hyperbole, no misinformation, no nonsense. Monday brought similar news to what we’d seen over the past week or so. Brazil continues to be the world’s biggest hot spot; the US continues to pace around 20,000 new cases daily and Florida’s still seeing its highest levels of new cases since the pandemic began. Picking up on some of those points...
In the United States we’d seen a steady decline in total active cases of coronavirus through June 4th. However, since June 4th we’ve seen a daily increase in active cases and currently just under 1.2 million Americans are infected with the virus. This equals the highest day for total active cases since the outbreak in the US started. The timing coincides with protests, which in a separate story today, seems to account for much of the increase we’re seeing across the country including here in Florida.
Here’s where we stand as of now...
Worldwide:
- 8,128,490 – 439,421 deaths – 4,242,154 recovered
Nationally:
- 2,182,950 cases – 118,283 deaths – 889,866 recovered
Florida:
- 77,326 cases – 2,941 deaths
In Florida, we had 1,758 new diagnosed cases but only seven related deaths yesterday. Florida’s currently at its highest level of active cases as we’re continuing to see spikes with younger Floridians – this might also account for the lower level of deaths reported due to the virus despite higher case counts. South Florida remains the epicenter of the virus with Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach County having the most cases in that order – though Palm Beach County is now only 71 cases behind Broward and already has more deaths attributed to the virus.
Here are the South Florida hot spots right now - there are two new ones in Palm Beach County today:
Palm Beach (8): 33,407, 33415, 33430, 33435, 33458, 33460, 33461, 33463
Broward (7): 33023, 33024, 33025, 33028, 33064, 33311, 33313
Miami-Dade (20): 33012, 33015, 33016, 33033, 33034, 33055, 33125, 33126, 33136, 33139, 33140, 33142, 33143, 33147 33157, 33161, 33162, 33165, 33166, 33175,
The overall positive test rate in Florida remained at 5.4% Monday. The peak was 11% around six weeks ago, however the low was 5.2% a week ago. This reinforces the importance of adhering to the warnings of public officials including social distancing and wearing masks in public. The average age of a Floridian diagnosed with the virus has now dropped from 54 to 46. Despite the most recent news, Florida continues to outperform the country overall. Florida is 8th in total cases nationally while we remain 11th in deaths. Florida is the third most populous state. With over 118,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19, it is the deadliest virus in the United States since the 1918 pandemic which killed over 600,000 Americans.