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Century prison cases drive Escambia almost to 9.3K COVID cases

Posted on August 8, 2020

 

The backlog of test results finally caught up with Escambia County .The county recorded its largest day for COVID – 540 with 306 associated with corrections. The county had five more deaths – total 120. The positivity rate is 24.9% for Friday, August 7.

Even without the corrections cases, Escambia had 234 new cases –only nine were not Florida residents.

With one more day to close the week, Aug. 2-9 will go down as the deadliest week yet for COVID in Escambia County – even deadlier than the week that had 10 deaths recorded on one day.

 

as of Aug 8 8/6/20 8/7/20 Increase
Total Cases      518,075       526,577     8,502
Fla Residents       512,421       520,846     8,425
Deaths           7,927           8,109        182
Escambia           8,757           9,297        540
Fla Residents           7,876           8,407        531
Deaths              115              120            5
Hospitalizations              521              536          15
LTC              811              830          19
Corrections              104              410        306
Positivity 19.9% 24.9% 5.0%
Santa Rosa           3,791           3,857          66
Fla Residents           3,766           3,828          62
Deaths                36                37            1
Hospitalizations              184              189            5
LTC              183              190            7
Corrections              938              952          14
Positivity 15.6% 11.3% -4.3%
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