Ten percent of those who have been tested for COVID-19 in Florida are suffering from the potentially deadly virus and they’re most likely to fall between the ages of 45-54.
That’s according to statistics released Sunday morning by the Florida Department of Health. Those numbers show that 19 percent of patients – 4,724 – fall into that age group, with 506 of them requiring hospitalization. Another 18 percent – 4,443 patients – are between the ages of 55-64 years old. Of those, 654 have required hospital care.
The breakdown of the majority of the remaining patients in the Sunshine State is as follows:
- 0-4 years old: 113 cases, 6 hospitalizations;
- 5-14 years old: 223 cases, 5 hospitalizations;
- 15-24 years old: 1,823 cases, 52 hospitalizations;
- 25-34 years old: 3,772 cases, 190 hospitalizations;
- 35-44 years old: 3,886 cases, 349 hospitalizations;
- 65-74 years old: 3,305 cases, 878 hospitalizations;
- 75-84 years old: 1,956 cases, 720 hospitalizations;
- 85-plus years old: 1,012 cases, 406 hospitalizations; and
- Unknown: 40 cases.
Statistics show that of the 25,996 COVID-19 cases in Florida as of Sunday morning, 12,614 (50 percent) are men, 12,523 (49 percent) are women and 163 (1 percent) are unknown. Of those, 12,286 are white; 3,987 are black; 2,126 are members of other races and 6,901 are listed as unknown race.
Among the 472 tri-county patients who had been identified as of Sunday morning, 52 percent are men and 48 percent are women. Of those, 63 percent are white, 8 percent are black, 15 percent are listed as other and 10 percent fall under the category of unknown. Statistics also show that 68 percent are non-Hispanic, 17 percent are Hispanic and 12 percent are listed as unknown.
A total of 256,698 tri-county residents have been tested for COVID-19, with 230,083 coming back negative and 619 listed as inconclusive. Another 1,179 people also are awaiting testing, the Florida Department of Health report shows.