November 14 update: 20 new positive tests, no deaths

BY JENNIFER CABRERA

According to the stateĀ dashboard, Alachua County reported an increase of 20 positive COVID-19 tests, with an official test positivity rate of 3.94%. No new deaths were reported.

Of the people whose positive tests came back yesterday, only 2 were 65 or older.

A total of 85 deaths have been reported in the county, 34 of which were in long-term care.

The overall number of people (from all counties) hospitalized here for COVID-19 increased from 69 to 70.

State COVID-19 hospitalizations increased slightly to 3,151 today.

The state reported 4,544 new positive tests (official positivity rate of 9.95%) and a net increase of 44 deaths, 17 of which were from long-term care facilities.

Changes in the number of deaths were reported on 27 different dates, going back to July 25. Changes by month: July (+1-1), August (+1-1), October (+14), November (+32-2)

The peaks are on July 30 (235) and August 4 (237), and the 7-day moving average peak is August 5 (225).

The 7-day average plateau between July 25 and August 7 has been stable since I started reporting the peaks on August 27.

Here is the full chart for context:

The state also publishes a chart of the percentage of new tests that are positive by day (this chart is for the whole state), and the official positive rate yesterday was 9.95%.

In Alachua County, the official positivity rate was 3.94%.

This chart shows the number of negative tests reported in Alachua County by day:

The 7-day moving average of new cases is at 80.4 through yesterdayā€™s cases. Here is the 7-day average of new cases for the past 14 days:

  • Itā€™s time for all of us that have not been tested to go out and get tested. The cost to use Quest is $119 and may be covered by your insurance. By doing so, we can lower the positivity rate.

    I recently was tested for antibodies when I gave blood. How do those reports filter into testing data? If I donā€™t have the antibodies, does my report get treated as a negative?

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