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:
