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November 22 update: 67 new positive tests, 4 deaths

BY JENNIFER CABRERA

According to the stateĀ dashboard, Alachua County reported an increase of 67 positive COVID-19 tests with an official test positivity rate of 3.28%. Four new deaths were reported.

The four deaths:

  • 62-year-old male who tested positive on September 11, visited an emergency room, and was hospitalized
  • 90-year-old female who tested positive on October 19, with “UNKNOWN” for both emergency room and hospitalization
  • 86-year-old female who tested positive on October 25, with “UNKNOWN” for both emergency room and hospitalization
  • 86-year-old female who tested positive on October 27, didn’t visit an emergency room, but was hospitalized

None were in long-term care.

Of the people whose positive tests came back yesterday, 10 were 65 or older (this is the important number to track because those are the people who are more likely to have bad outcomes).

A total of 96 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 86 to 90.

State COVID-19 hospitalizations increased to 3,615 today.

The state reported 6,586 new positive tests (official positivity rate of 6.60%) and a net increase of 61 deaths, 11 of which were from long-term care facilities.

Changes in the number of deaths were reported on 44 different dates, going back to July 28. Changes by month: July (+1), August (+10), September (+18), October (+8), November (+24)

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 6.60%.

In Alachua County, the official positivity rate was 3.28%.

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

The 7-day moving average of new cases is at 85.4 through yesterdayā€™s cases. Here is the 7-day average of new cases for the past 14 days:

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