Local hospitals set record for COVID-19 collections

Two days after Inweekly reported that West Florida Hospital had collected less than three-percent of all COVID-19 specimens, the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center reports that hospitals set a record for collections.

According to the EOC, hospitals collected 261 specimens on Monday – nearly four times more that Monday, March 30. Overall, the EOC reports the county facilities, including drive-thrus, collected 410 specimens – the most in a single day. The previous high was Wednesday, April 1 – 289 collections.

Over the past 24 hours, Escambia had 27 more cases, total 168, according to the 6 p.m. DOH dashboard. The county now has 15 COVID-19 hospitalizations. No more deaths since 11 a.m., today – total 2.

4/6/20 4/7/20
6 p.m. 6 p.m. Increase
Total Cases 13629 14747 1118 8.20%
Florida Residents 13214 14302 1088 8.23%
Non-Fla. 415 445 30 7.23%
Deaths 254 296 42 16.54%
Escambia 141 168 27 19.15%
Okaloosa 65 70 5 7.69%
Santa Rosa 64 66 2 3.13%
Broward 2075 2239 164 7.90%

 

Here is the Underhill Chart that shows the rise in positive COVID-19 cases in Escambia:

And here is the Overhill Chart the shows the new positive cases by day. It doesn’t look flat to me.

And here is the Testing Chart:

 

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