Jacob Ogles
The number of people tested positive for COVID-19 in Hillsborough County rocketed to 5,319 overnight.
The Florida Department of Health reports 403 Hillsborough residents tested positive on Friday alone. More than 1,700 individuals in the county tested positive for the coronavirus in the past seven days.
The county became only the fourth in Florida to pass the 5,000-case threshold.
It’s the only concentration of cases that size outside of the metropolitan South Florida counties on Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Those three counties still account for 50% of all cases of COVID-19 in the state of Florida.
More than 1 in 17 individuals who contracted COVID-19 in Florida tested positive in Hillsborough County.
Neighboring Pinellas County also saw 285 new cases reported overnight, to 3,438 cases overall. To the south, Manatee County saw 137 new cases added to its tally, bring the total to 1,786.
The county has seen 572 residents hospitalized since the March 1 beginning of the pandemic, and 114 have died.
The Friday number of cases was more than a third again higher than daily increases anytime in the last two weeks. Out of 2,466 test results recorded on Friday, a total of 403, more than 16%, came back positive. That, again, was the highest positivity rate in a 14-day span of time.
Notably, the median age for confirmed cases Friday was at 30, the lowest number in a week. That suggests numbers continue to be fueled by spread within younger populations.
The greatest concentrations, according to zip code breakdowns, remain in the Carrollwood-University area, with 335 cases, and in East Lake-Thonotosassa area, with 302 cases.
The weekly counts for emergency room visits for influenza-like illnesses and those with COVID-19 symptoms in Hillsborough have been on the increase since mid-May.
The jump in Hillsborough overnight have during a record day for Florida cases, with more than 4,000 new cases reported since the Friday morning report. Friday was the first day since the March 1 start of the pandemic with more than 4,000 new cases reported within a single day.
6 comments
KVD
June 21, 2020 at 1:55 pm
Closer to achieving herd immunity. Hospitalizations and deaths not going up. This is great news.
Ile Vega
June 22, 2020 at 12:13 am
Thanks DeSantis for opening up too soon. But of course he doesn’t care all he thinks about is the economy the money. He doesn’t think if the human life’s lost. He said more ppl will die well his not kidding. I guess be just killed his changes of re-election thank goodness what a moron!!!!
Phil Roberts
June 22, 2020 at 7:46 am
Well it was DeSantis or a meth head. At least we didn’t get the meth head as our governor. And don’t let your lack of critical thinking ruin your good judgement. These are actually low numbers, as others have pointed out. In Florida there are about 97,000 cases. That is not an active number of cases but the number of positive tests since mid March 2020. Considering there are over 23 millions residents………..well I’ll let you do the math of how many people around you might have this thing and you’ll see its such a small percentage you won’t be so scared. Don’t let words like “rocket” scare you. Educate yourself on how to figure out the actual active cases at any one time and you’ll be comforted. Also, protect yourself and stay home. If you absolutely must go out wear a mask.
Chris
June 22, 2020 at 5:48 am
More sensationalism. And you “reporters” don’t add in your pieces that there’s a 97% recovery rate. Open your eyes people. These liberal junkies will do and say anything.
Vaughn Hatham
June 22, 2020 at 6:23 am
Ridiculous propaganda. How can anyone in their right mind find any credibility in these numbers after all the factual memos and instructional pamphlets instructing Certifiers to mark covid 19 as reason for death no matter the test results. It’s like saying the centurion died of cancer at 104 yrs old. How come the genre’s of types of deaths have lessened in proportion to covid increases? Why are the numbers stating positive in line with flu shot recipients? Where are they doing these tests? Are they volunteering for them? Why was so much shady nefarious actions taken at our schools etc. When on lock down? Why does the America the Beautiful quarter for the first time ever is the eagle replaced with two Bats!? There is so much evidence disputing the validity of this pandemic its nauseating. Covid is real,and it’s a big lie. Masks have been studied to have very little effect by major universities as well as the leading Doctors specialising in this field. How good is a mask with your eyes wide open? And constantly touching your mask and face when wearing? So what if it kills people. Their is ample video footage of Bill Gates saying he is going to reduce the population by 15 to 20 percent through immunization! He’s developed vaccines to prevent religious zealots called the Fun vaccine. Now releasing modified mosquitoes. Who are these people God? Look that up! Wake up people your family’s life is dependent on you doing so.Hard to believe I know. But it’s real and your dreaming!
JR
June 22, 2020 at 6:52 am
Wow! It rocketed to o.3% of Hillsborough county’s population! But wait not active cases because that is the number of cases since mid March. So maybe o.1% of the county currently has it. Scary!
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