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Century prison cases drive Escambia almost to 9.3K COVID cases

 

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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