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Brevard County's death toll increased by three, although Wednesday's Florida Department of Health state report gives details about four deaths. As of Wednesday, the county has lost 284 people to the virus. Of those, 74 deaths were reported this month. Victims range in age from 25 to 103.
At least 171 deaths were connected to longterm care facilities such as nursing homes, up two from the previous day.
Brevard also added 73 new COVID-19 cases to its total of 8,578 — 8,551 residents and 27 nonresidents affected.
Here's info about the four latest deaths:
• an 88-year-old female whose case was not travel-related. It is not known whether she had contact with a known case. Her case was confirmed Sept. 4.
• a 77-year-old female whose case was not travel-related. It is not known whether she had contact with a known case. Her case was confirmed Sept. 8.
• a 73-year-old male whose case was not travel-related. It is not known whether he had contact with a known case. His case was confirmed Sept. 13.
• a 95-year-old female whose case was not travel-related. It is not known whether she had contact with a known case. Her case was confirmed Sept. 14.
Here's info about four deaths reported Tuesday:
• an 84-year-old male whose case was not travel-related. He did have contact with a known case. His case was confirmed Aug. 7.
• a 93-year-old male whose case was not travel-related. He did have contact with a known case. His case was confirmed Aug. 17.
• a 93-year-old female whose case was not travel-related. She did have contact with a known case. Her case was confirmed Aug. 19.
• a 79-year-old male whose case was not travel-related. He did have contact with a known case. His case was confirmed Sept. 1.
It's important to note the exact dates of these deaths are not made public by the department of health. Often there is a lag between the person's death and when it is reported by the Florida Department of Health. Also, a "case" is a person who tests positive for the first time, according to FDOH.
The total number of people tested in Brevard was 103,747 (95,110 testing negative), for a cumulative positive percentage rate of 8.27%. FDOH county report show on Tuesday 716 people tested negative, and there was a percent positive of 10.16% for new cases here. The median age of those testing positive here is 44. The median age statewide is 40.
FDOH data show 774 Florida residents have been hospitalized in Brevard since the pandemic began, up three from the previous day.
In total, 3,896 males and 4,646 females have tested positive for coronavirus.
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According to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, at 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Brevard had 45 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in its seven major hospitals, down five from the previous day. Of the 1,312 total staffed hospital bed capacity, 27% of beds were available in those hospitals. Of the 169 total adult ICU bed capacity, 24% were available.
Here's a snapshot of this month's coronavirus cases in Brevard:
Sept. 1: 144 cases
Sept. 2: 45 cases, 8 deaths
Sept. 3: 41 cases, 5 deaths
Sept. 4: 68 cases, 5 deaths
Sept. 5: 66 cases, 6 deaths
Sept. 6: 35 cases, 1 death
Sept. 7: 23 cases
Sept. 8: 33 cases
Sept. 9: 53 cases, 2 deaths
Sept. 10: 45 cases, 8 deaths
Sept. 11: 74 cases, 8 deaths
Sept. 12: 65 cases, 1 death
Sept. 13: 34 cases
Sept. 14: 35 cases, 2 deaths
Sept. 15: 55 cases, 7 deaths
Sept. 16: 47 cases, 3 deaths
Sept. 17: 96 cases, 4 deaths
Sept. 18: 71 cases, 4 deaths
Sept. 19: 88 cases, 2 deaths
Sept. 20: 43 cases, 1 death
Sept. 21: 34 cases
Sept. 22: 73 cases, 4 deaths
Sept. 22: 76 cases, 3 deaths
Coronavirus in Brevard, Sept. 22: 4 deaths, 73 cases
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Statewide stats
FDOH data show the state added 2,590 cases Wednesday for a cumulative total of 690,499 cases (682,370 residents and 8,129 nonresidents affected; note, on Sept. 22, FDOH data show 8,133 nonresidents were affected). Statewide, there have been 5,163,125 people have been tested with 4,465,481 negative results for a cumulative percent positive of 13.37%.
Statewide, the death toll for Florida residents was 13,618 with 202 newly recorded deaths.
Total number of Florida residents hospitalized since the pandemic began increased to 42,941, up 170 from the previous day.
Cases by race of Brevard residents
White: 4,508
Black: 1,043
Other: 722
Unknown/no data: 2,278
Cases by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic: 4,877
Hispanic: 980
Unknown/no data: 2,694
City by city
Here's the city-by-city count as of Wednesday, although some of these may include unincorporated areas. Note: Per FDOH, these are provisional. We are showing the increase over 24 hours.
Total cases as of Sept. 23: 8,578
Melbourne: 2,488, an increase of 21
Palm Bay: 1,825, an increase of 9
Cocoa: 880, an increase of 7
Merritt Island: 657, an increase of 8
Titusville: 550, an increase of 9
Rockledge: 527, an increase of 4
Missing, Brevard: 284, an increase of 3 (this is how it appears on FDOH report)
Satellite Beach: 203, an increase of 1
Cocoa Beach: 187, an increase of 2
West Melbourne: 180, an increase of 1
Indialantic: 150, an increase of 1
Mims: 97, an increase of 4
Cape Canaveral: 93, an increase of 2
Melbourne Beach: 90, an increase of 3
Indian Harbour Beach: 75, an increase of 1
Viera: 52
Malabar: 47
Sebastian: 42, an increase of 2
*Grant-Valkaria: 29; on Sept. 22, FDOH reported 30 cases
Barefoot Bay: 28
Patrick Air Force Base: 26, an increase of 1
Palm Shores: 15
Micco: 8
Port St. John: 5
Valkaria: 4
Orlando, Brevard: 3
Scottsmoor: 2
Fellsmere: 2
Kissimmee, Brevard: 1
Sharpes: 1
Zip codes
Within Brevard, these are the zip codes with the most infections, according to the FDOH (data is provisional and subject to change) as of Wednesday:
• 32907 with 702 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Bay, Malabar and West Melbourne
• 32904 with 670 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne Village, Melbourne, Palm Bay, West Melbourne and June Park
• 32909 with 637 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Bay, Malabar and Grant-Valkaria
• 32901 with 615 cases. That includes all or parts of West Melbourne, Palm Bay and Melbourne
• 32940 with 581 cases. That includes all or parts of Suntree, Palm Shores, Melbourne, Viera East and Viera West
• 32955 with 575 cases. That includes parts of Rockledge, Cocoa, Cocoa West, Viera East and Viera West
• 32935 with 508 cases. That includes all or parts of Palm Shores and Melbourne
• 32905 with 413 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne, Palm Bay, Malabar and West Melbourne
• 32922 with 384 cases. That includes all or parts of Cocoa, Rockledge and Cocoa West
• 32953 with 385 cases. That includes parts of Titusville and Merritt Island
• 32780 with 371 cases: That includes all or parts of Titusville and Port St. John
• 32937 with 310 cases. That includes all or parts of Satellite Beach, Melbourne, Indian Harbour Beach and South Patrick Shores
• 32934 with 287 cases. That includes all or parts of Melbourne and West Melbourne
• 32952 with 282 cases. That includes parts of Satellite Beach and Merritt Island
• 32927 with 275 cases. That includes all or parts of Titusville, Port St. John and Sharpes
• 32926 with 242 cases. That includes all or parts of Rockledge, Cocoa, Cocoa West, Port St. John and Sharpes
• 32796 with 221 cases. That includes Titusville
• 32908 with 210 cases. That includes Palm Bay
• 32931 with 186 cases. That includes all or parts of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach
• 32903 with 171 cases. That includes Indialantic, Melbourne, Indian Harbour Beach
• 32754 with 98 cases. That includes Mims
• 32920 with 94 cases. That includes Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral
• 32951 with 92 cases. That includes Indialantic, Melbourne Beach and Micco
• 32976 with 83 cases. That includes Grant-Valkaria, Micco and Roseland
• 32950 with 53 cases. That includes Palm Bay, Malabar and Grant-Valkaria
*• 32949 with 33 cases. That includes Malabar, Grant-Valkaria and Micco; on Sept. 22, FDOH dashboard reported 34 cases
• 32925 with 26 cases. That includes Patrick Air Force Base
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