2,328 individual people were tested and there have been 21 deaths.
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UPDATE: As of Friday, June 19 there are 728 Hendry COVID-19 cases recorded since March 1, including cases found in the new anti-body testing.
2,451 individual people have been tested and there have been 22 deaths, which includes 16 from 2 nursing homes.
1 in 96 residents on the LaBelle side of the county have been infected and 1 in 42 on the Clewiston side, the higher Clewiston infections due in part with the high number of agricultural workers living or working in close quarters. Three out of four Hendry county cases are Hispanic.
Immokalee has 1,200 cases, or 1 in 26 people infected in the area.
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UPDATE: As of Saturday, June 20 there are 751 Hendry COVID-19 cases recorded since March 1, including cases found in the new anti-body testing.
2,479 individual people have been tested and there have been 22 deaths, which includes 16 from 2 nursing homes.
1 in 91 residents on the LaBelle side of the county have been infected and 1 in 41 on the Clewiston side, the higher Clewiston infections due in part with the high number of agricultural workers living or working in close quarters. Three out of four Hendry county cases are Hispanic.
Immokalee has 1,245 cases, or 1 in 25 people infected in the area.
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Only 6.3% of Hendry individuals have been tested. 29%, or almost 1 in 3 of those individuals tested in Hendry had the virus.
Florida's infections numbers climbed again to the highest ever, 93,527 cases, with 3,818 new cases today, the highest daily increase recorded ever. About 1 in every 225 Floridians now show having or had the virus.
Glades County - Nearly Half Of Those Tested Are Infected
In Glades county, cases increased this week to 122, including the anti-virus test, and 1 death previously reported, with only 279 individuals tested so far, or only 2.1% of the population.
44.9% of those tested so far in Glades county tested positive for the virus, or almost 1 of every 2 tested.
1 in 112 residents have the virus at the current very low rate of testing in Glades County. It is expected the number will increase significantly if more people are tested in the agricultural community.
About Department of Health Positive Test Numbers
The Florida Department of Health test numbers changed starting May 5, to now include, as stated in the fine print of it's websites, "all tests" compared to the number of people who test positive for the first time. But many health care workers and others each take multiple tests. FDOH totals now include multiple or re-tests of the same individuals. Previous to May 5, re-tests and duplicate tests to the same individual were counted only once.
Because of this accounting of testing, the DOH positive rates post lower percentages of infection by counting all the multiple tests on the same people. The actual infection percentage is almost twice as high as the FDOH says, when counting only each person tested.
Agricultural Areas Being Hit Hard
1 in 58 of all the people in Hendry had the virus under the current testing. a higher rate of infection than any other county surrounding Hendry county.
Clewiston had 460 cases, Felda 16, Fort Denaud 3, and LaBelle 194.
1 in 102 residents on the LaBelle side of the county have been infected and 1 in 43 on the Clewiston side, the higher Clewiston infections due in part with the high number of agricultural workers living or working in close quarters. Three out of four Hendry county cases are Hispanic.
Immokalee has 1,200 cases, or 1 in 26 people infected in the area.
Nearby Agricultural Hotspots
Hotspots in the area because of significant numbers of people in close confinement in nearby Palm Beach county include the South Bay Correctional Facility operated by the GEO Group, Inc. where 176 prisoners, or 1 in 11 prisoners, have the virus and also 60 staff. 866 inmates are under medical quarantine.
Belle Glade, another hotspot in Palm Beach county had an increase to 516 cases or 1 in 40 residents, and South Bay with 232 cases or 1 in 22 people.
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