A.G. Gancarski
Northeast Florida may be done with COVID-19, but the novel coronavirus isn’t done with the Jacksonville region.
Rates of positive tests throughout the region are among the highest in the state.
The most recent weekly tallies from Florida’s Department of Health, released last week, show the region well ahead of the rest of the state in case counts and incidence going into the Fourth of July Weekend.
From June 25 to July 1, Duval County reported 1,420 cases, with an 11.1% positive test rate.
That is the highest proportion of positive tests of any major metro in the state. For context, Miami-Dade and Broward are each below 4%, Palm Beach just over 4%, and Orange County at 5.3%. Hillsborough, which includes Tampa, was at 5.7%.
Duval, where 47% of residents have been vaccinated, and an additional 16.5% have had the virus, is not alone among Northeast Florida counties facing rates of positive tests far higher than the 5.2% state average.
Baker County, which includes MacClenny, had more cases (57) than vaccinations (50) during the reporting period. The county also saw a 16.4% positive testing rate, among the highest in the state, over the same week.
Just 28% of Baker County residents have had a shot, while 22.4% have had the disease itself.
The other counties in the region saw variations on the same theme, with low vaccination rates coinciding with a viral surge.
To the west of Baker, Bradford County saw a 13.4% positive test rate over the same week. Only 42% of its residents have been vaccinated.
In Clay County, 41% of residents have had a shot. Its positive test rate was 10.2%.
Nassau County saw a 13.2% positive test rate. Compared to many counties in the region, its 49% vaccination rate is robust.
Meanwhile, the brightest spot in the region is still affluent St. Johns County, though even there, the positive test rate of 8.9% was well above the state average. The lower regional rate is likely buoyed by a 61% vaccination rate. Nearly 17% of residents there have had the virus.
New figures will be released later this week, but the ones worth watching might be the week after when it will be seen what effect Independence Day gatherings had on the viral spread.
Coronavirus concerns haven’t been primary to local messaging recently, but COVID-19 has still been in the news. Seven Jacksonville Fire and Rescue crew members contracted the disease during search and rescue missions in Surfside.
7 comments
Frankie M.
July 5, 2021 at 10:36 am
Since when do we care about case counts. We ain’t got time for all that jibba jabba. You wanna talk about numbahs??
Sicka Ignorance
July 5, 2021 at 7:45 pm
Only Qanon losers getting Covid today and I am OK with that. They kinda deserve it.
JmjtUSA
July 5, 2021 at 11:02 am
You forgot MASKS & LOCKDOWNS & SCHOOL CLOSINGS… this editorial, posing as an article (t
Articles contain facts & lack bias), is only half scary…
Good news: by Halloween zer maybe writing about how masks really are scary, or funny, or..
Sicka Ignornance
July 5, 2021 at 7:47 pm
You are on your own at this point. Sometimes you have to FEEL the virus to RESPECT it.
Mary Pry
July 8, 2021 at 9:26 am
And Sometimes YOU need to FEEL the death of a few friends post-vax to respect the Lack of Information for this Emergency Use Authorized Shot that should have ONLY gotten approved if there were no therapeutics to treat it. Period.
Read the FDA document called “Provider info”. It s 24 pages long!
The info they give Us, the “PARTICIPANTS”, because it is a TRIAL, is 4 pages short.
How about YOU respect other people, and their Right to Choose given the lack of information & covering up of VERY important info.
LASTLY, those with the shot should go on about their lives since they are SO confident, despite the Info sheets for the vaccines stating: “this is a trial and it is NOT KNOWN whether it will prevent COVID-19.” Lol.
Frankie M.
July 5, 2021 at 7:50 pm
Same people bitchin bout masks are usually the ones who won’t get the vax…cuz reasons. Coincidence? I only feel bad for the immunosuppressed and the children aka superspreader. For God’s sakes somebody think about the children!
Mary Pry
July 8, 2021 at 9:18 am
Positive “test rate” Vaccinated. % KNOWN recovered from “the virus” %UNKNOWN recovered
Duval county: 11.1% 47% 16.5% ?
*Sumter County: 6.4%. 68%. 15%. ?
*Indian River: 6.2%. 64%. 14.2%. ?
Baker County: 16.4% 28% 22.4% ?
Bradford County: 13.4% 42% *22.6%. ?
Clay County: 10.2%. 41%. *17.6%. ?
St. John’s County: 8.9%. 61%. 17% ?
Nassau county: 13.2%. 49%. *17.2%. ?
Miami/Dade: 3.6%. 72%. *19.1%. ?
*Palm Beach: 4.3%. 62%. 15.8% ?
Orange County: 5.3%. 58%. *14.5%
*Hillsborough/Tampa: 5.7%. 53%. 17.4%
*Pinellas: 3.7%. 57%. 15.2%
*Manatee: 3.9%. 56%. 15.6%. ?
Case fatality rate by age in Florida since C-19 began:
Under 16: 0.0%. (7 deaths total in entire state)**
16-19: 0.0% (148 deaths total in entire state)**
30-39: 0.1%. (374)**
40-49: 0.3%. (1,040)**
50-59: 0.8%. (2,689)**
60-64: 2.0%. (2,643)**
65+: 9.6%. (31,084)**
* data I have added from the same chart used by this article: Florida Department of Health
** critical to know that Many doctors across the country (& some MD’s I KNOW TOLD me that they labeled deaths as Covid without autopsies or known Cause of Death. A family I personally know lost their son due to a motorcycle accident(dead on arrival). They recd the death certificate & the “cause of death” was :C19 They are suing the Health Department for refusing to reflect accuracy.
TWO Very CLose friends have died post-vax. 1 was a pharmacist who also gave hundreds of shots in arms (acute renal failure. Died in his sleep. No warning). The other got the vax 5 months ago, developed a mysterious painful neurological disorder that wrapped around his head & jaw. He was admitted to the hospital For testing. ALL scans, blood are perfectly Normal. A few days later he was told he had pneumonia. He was set to come home despite no solution for neurological disorder. THEN, his blood work within a week suddenly spiked. Further testing occurred: acute leukemia & died 3 days later.
THIS man had blood work everyday in the hospital & 2x a year.
! I encourage you all to read the VAERS reports which only represent 1-2% of what’s really happening.
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