Bathers enjoy the beaches in Miami, while hospital beds are scarce due to an increase in infections. Photo: EFE.
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Florida surpassed 300,000 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday by adding more than 10,000 new infections in the last 24 hours, amid growing concern about the spread of the pandemic and the lack of decisions at the state level, EFE reported.
According to the news agency, in Miami-Dade 2,514 new positives were registered this Wednesday, which raised the account to 72,317, in its neighboring Broward and Palm Beach the new cases were 1,339 and 509, respectively. Now the respective accounts are at 34,153 and 22,788.
This means that of Florida’s 301,810 cases and 4,521 deaths, 129,258
Cases and 2,300 deaths are concentrated in three of its 67 states.
From March 1 to today, there have been 19,334 hospitalizations in this state, according to the Health Department, which does not report how many people are admitted each day by COVID-19.
However, by the Health Care Administration Agency of
Florida, it is known that 16.24% of the places in the care units
State intensive were free today.
The beds available in ICUs are reduced
Of the three counties most affected by the pandemic, the lowest level of
Availability (7.34%) was that of Broward, Miami-Dade had 14.17% available and Palm Beach, 26.16%.
Another important indicator is positive test cases
made in one day, which in the state was this Wednesday at 18%, but in
Miami-Dade was two points higher (20%).
Since March 1, tests of COVID-19 have been performed at more than 2.73
million people in Florida, which has 21.8 million inhabitants, and a
11% of that total was positive.
To the criticism of Governor Ron DeSantis for not acting against the coronavirus and leaving everything in the hands of county and municipal authorities and the requests to return to confinement in the most affected areas, today was added the concern that some analysis laboratories are not reporting of negative cases to the state authorities as it is their obligation.
Preliminary trial data with AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 will be released Monday.
Data from initial human trials on a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford against COVID-19 disease will be released on July 20., The Lancet medical magazine said, according to the Reuters agency.
The vaccine is already being tested on a large scale in humans in its phase III to assess if it can protect from the disease, but its developers have yet to disseminate the results of phase I, which would show if it is safe and if it induces or not an immune response.
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(With information from agencies)
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