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Damn, Florida hits a new record – 3,822

   June 19, 2020

Florida has 3,822 new COVID-19 cases – shooting past yesterday’s record of 3,207.

Escambia County has 38 new cases and one more death.  Only six  cases were non-Florida residents, and two of the new cases were associated with local nursing homes. The median ages for the new cases is 29. The median age yesterday was 26.

DOH Escambia did post 927 test results for June 18 – the most test results for a single day in the past two weeks.  The positive percentage was 3.6%.

Since Sunday, Escambia has 98 new cases, tested 2,698 residents  and had 3.6% positivity rate. For the same five days last week, the county only had 53 positives. The number of tests was smaller, 2,240, but so was the positivity rate, 2.4%.

For the first 19 days, Escambia County had 213 COVID-19 cases.  For the same period of June, the county has had 312 cases – 46.7% increase.

6/18/20 6/19/20 Increase
Total Cases 85926 89748 3822 4.45%
Florida Residents 83854 87643 3789 4.52%
Non-Fla. 2072 2105 33 1.59%
Deaths 3061 3104 43 1.40%
Escambia 1089 1127 38 3.49%
Okaloosa 366 391 25 6.83%
Santa Rosa 319 330 11 3.45%
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