HomeHealthNovember 9 update: 138 new positive tests, 4 deaths

November 9 update: 138 new positive tests, 4 deaths

November 9, 2020

BY JENNIFER CABRERA

According to the state dashboard, Alachua County reported an increase of 138 positive COVID-19 tests, with an official test positivity rate of 3.57%. Four new deaths were reported.

Here are the new deaths:

  • 93-year-old female with “unknown” in the emergency room and hospitalization fields, tested positive on 10/19
  • 86-year-old female who didn’t visit an emergency room or hospital, tested positive on 10/10
  • 86-year-old female with “unknown” in the emergency room and hospitalization fields, tested positive on 9/9
  • 49-year-old female who didn’t visit an emergency room but was hospitalized, tested positive 8/11

Of the people whose positive tests came back yesterday, 11 were 65 or older, and 73 (56%) were college-aged.

A total of 82 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 71.

State COVID-19 hospitalizations increased to 2,902 today.

The state reported 3,924 new positive tests (official positivity rate of 8.07%) and a net increase of 58 deaths, 20 of which were from long-term care facilities.

Changes in the number of deaths were reported on 44 different dates, going back to July 22. Changes by month: July (+3), August (+18), September (+21), October (+13), November (+3)

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 8.07%.

In Alachua County, the official positivity rate was 3.57%.

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

The 7-day moving average of new cases is at 70.1 through yesterday’s cases. Here is the 7-day average of new cases for the past 14 days:

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