COVID-19 tracker: State reports 199 new cases, one additional death in Collier County
Dan DeLuca
The Florida Department of Health reported 199 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death in Collier County on Friday.
The state identified the newly reported death as a 73-year-old man whose positive case was counted by the state on Dec. 16.
Collier County's cumulative total of COVID-19 fatalities increased to 371, the 18th-highest total among Florida counties. Of those deaths, 160 or 43% were either residents or staff of nursing homes.
So far in January, the state has reported 39 deaths of Collier residents from COVID-19. If this pace continues for the next two weeks, January would easily surpass the record for the most reported deaths for Collier in a single month, which was 54 in August.
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The new cases increased Collier's cumulative total to 25,419, 16th most among Florida counties.
Collier's moving seven-day average for new cases was 186 through Thursday, about 58% greater than the average on Dec. 1 (118).
The seven-day average case rate is the average of a day and the previous six days of COVID-19 cases. This rate is recognized as a more accurate measure of the spread of coronavirus in a community. That's because it minimizes the impact of a single day with a very high or very low number of cases.
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Collier's seven-day average for reported COVID-19 tests was 1,662 through Thursday, about 43% greater than the seven-day average on Dec. 1 (1,162). The rate is the average of a day and the previous six days of COVID-19 tests.
Collier's seven-day average positivity rate was 11.15% through Thursday, about 0.7 percentage points greater than the same average on Dec. 1 (10.41%). The rate is the average of a day and the previous six days of COVID-19 cases divided by tests.
A total of 1,345 people in Collier County have been hospitalized for COVID-19 as of Friday, according to the report, but that number does not reflect the people currently in the hospital, according to the Florida Department of Health.
As of approximately 2 p.m. Friday, there were 98 COVID-19 patients in Collier County hospitals, according to data from Florida's Agency for Healthcare Administration. That's 25 fewer patients than were reported at approximately the same time Thursday. The county also had 12.2% of its total hospital beds available and 16.5% of its adult ICU beds available, according to the AHCA. Florida's available percentages were 19.5% (hospital beds) and 16.6% (ICU beds), respectively. The AHCA also reported a total of 7,531 COVID-patients statewide as of 2 p.m. Friday. That's 230 fewer patients than at approximately the same time Thursday.
The Florida Department of Health is not reporting how many people have recovered from COVID-19.
Other numbers include the following demographics breakdown for Florida residents:
Age
- Age Range: 0 to 105
- Median Age: 43
Gender
- Male: 12,009
- Female: 12,528
- Unknown/No data: 112
Race
- Black: 1,287
- White: 14,610
- Other: 2,708
- Unknown/No Data: 6,044
Ethnicity
- Hispanic: 8,230
- Non-Hispanic: 10,587
- Unknown/No Data: 5,832
Residency
- Residents: 24,649
- Non-residents: 770
City of residence (if known)
- Naples: 20,541
- Immokalee: 2,967
- Marco Island: 625
- Ave Maria: 265
- Missing: 85
- Ochopee: 64
- Chokoloskee: 23
- Everglades City: 14
- Goodland: 14
- Jerome: 8
- Copeland: 5
Tests reported for Collier (through Jan. 14)
- Total tested: 143,010
- Positive: 25,419
- Negative: 117,591
- Percent positive: 17.77%
- Note: The Florida Department of Health has removed cumulative testing data from its COVID dashboard but the data can be viewed here.
