Estero 5/9/20 Village of Estero Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health Updates

Daily Stats (updated 5/8/2020 at 4:00 pm)

Lee Health has:

86 COVID-19 patients isolated in our hospitals
Submitted 12,439 specimens for testing
Discharged 295 patients
250 employees quarantined; 31 employees exposed at work and positive with COVID-19
Click here for graphs showing a running total of specimens collected for testing and positive cases hospitalized.

Today’s News

Be a Lifesaver: Donate Blood Tomorrow, May 9
Lee Health and the Florida Everblades are teaming up to host a mobile blood drive tomorrow, May 9, from 2-6 p.m. at Hertz Arena. Blood is incredibly versatile, and donations are essential to help multiple patients heal from a range of illnesses or injuries. All blood collected by Lee Health stays here to care for people in our community. All donors will receive a “thank you” gift and a wellness checkup, including blood pressure, temperature, iron count and cholesterol screening.

Sweet Treats for Our Nurses

In partnership with Frontline Foods SWFL, Norman Love Confections and FineMark National Bank & Trust gifted a four-piece box of chocolates to 4,500 Lee Health nurses in honor of National Nurses Week.

“Nurses serve a vital role in the health of our communities every day,” said FineMark President and CEO Joe Catti. “Given the current state of our world with COVID-19, it seems especially fitting to recognize the incredible nurses of Lee County who are on the frontlines of this pandemic. And we’re very pleased to partner with Mary and Norman Love and their company, Norman Love Confections, in giving great gratitude to all of our nurses and certified nursing assistants.”

Norman Love also shared his support of our nurses, saying: “Our team is extremely supportive of the frontline heroes who devote their lives to keeping us safe and healthy, particularly the nurses who treat patients and their families with so much respect, love and compassion. Chocolate is the number one way of saying ‘I love you,’ and we are grateful to FineMark Bank for supporting Norman Love Confections in reaching out to share our love with local frontline heroes. It’s our shared hope that nurses will realize how much this community values their dedication and expertise during these challenging times.”

Click here to see a few pictures of Lisa Sgarlata, chief patient care officer & chief nurse executive, and a few other nurses accepting this lovely, thoughtful treat.

A Note for Next Week
There will not be an update sent out this weekend. Moving forward, this newsletter will be distributed on Wednesdays. Look for the next COVID-19 Update to come out on Wednesday, May 13.

Florida Department of Health (Updated 5/8/2020 at 12:30 pm)

~38,172 positive cases in Florida residents and 1,027 positive cases in non-Florida residents~

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —The Florida Department of Health, in order to provide more comprehensive data, releases a report on COVID-19 cases in Florida once per day. The Florida Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard is also providing updates once per day. The state also provides a report detailing surveillance data for every Florida county. Previously, this information was only available for select communities. The surveillance data report is available here.

More than 19,900 test results were reported to the Department of Health on Thursday, May 7. Today, as of 11 a.m., there are 371 new positive COVID-19 cases (359 Florida residents and 12 non-Florida residents) and sixty-nine deaths related to COVID-19.

While Florida’s testing has increased over the past week, the percent of those testing positive for COVID-19 overall is 8 percent. On May 7, 1.8 percent of new cases** tested positive.

The Florida Department of Health also releases a list of long-term care facilities in Florida associated with COVID-19 cases with active cases and number of deaths in each facility in order to provide real-time data. The list of long-term care facilities with active COVID-19 cases is available here. The list of long-term care facilities with deaths in available here. To date, 665 individuals that were staff or residents of a long-term care facility have died.

There are a total of 39,199 Florida cases** with 1,669 deaths related to COVID-19.

Since 11 a.m. on May 7, sixty-nine people have died who tested positive for COVID-19 in Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Dade, Duval, Escambia, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Polk, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Seminole, Suwannee and Volusia counties.

Florida recently partnered with private laboratories around the state to expand COVID-19 laboratory testing capacity. This partnership will increase the number of tests conducted each day and ensure Floridians receive the critical health information they need in a timely manner.

Expansion to private laboratories changes the COVID-19 testing landscape in Florida. Private laboratories are running tests as they receive swab samples from practitioners. Testing and reporting times vary among commercial and DOH laboratories. Demographic information may be updated during investigations. This daily report reflect the state’s efforts to accurately and transparently share information.

World Health Organization Update

SITUATION IN NUMBERS total (new) cases in last 24 hours

(last updated 10:00 AM CET 5/8/2020)

Globally 3 759 967 cases (87 729)
259 474 deaths (5429)

Western Pacific Region 157 447 cases (1263)
6394 deaths (33)

European Region 1 654 345 cases (28 308)
152 179 deaths (1941)

South-East Asia Region 86 294 cases (4486)
3075 deaths (139)

Eastern Mediterranean Region 237 323 cases (8125)
8608 deaths (143)

Region of the Americas 1 586 129 cases (43 300)
87 930 deaths (3126)

African Region 37 717 cases (2247)
1275 deaths (47)

Highlights

WHO launched a checklist to support prison administrators and policy-makers for rapid and effective response to COVID-19.
WHO is supporting several African countries to coordinate and reinforce the work of emergency medical teams(EMTs) deployed to support the efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.
The WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr. Hans Henri P. Kluge stated his concern about the increase in interpersonal violence during COVID-19, and emphasized that “violence is preventable, not inevitable”.
At the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) Emergency Committee for COVID-19, the WHO Director-General reaffirmed that the outbreak of COVID-19 continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern and issued the Committee’s advice to States Parties
as Temporary Recommendations under the IHR. See ‘Subject in Focus’ below.
Today we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Declaration of Smallpox Eradication by the 33rd World Health Assembly. In the ‘Subject in Focus’ below, we look at how the global community came together to eradicate one of the most feared diseases of all time and how we can learn from this experience to
fight COVID-19 today.