COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) Resources

COVID-19 or the Coronavirus covers headlines daily.  We at HRHN want to make sure you and your family are protected and provided with the most accurate information possible.   

In addition to the information below, our partners at the Centers for DIsease Control and Prevention (CDC) have set up a website with guidance and facts about COVID-19.  You can access their website here.

The Department of Health has also created a webpage to help answer FAQs and provide information.  Their webpage can be accessed here.

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Heartland Rural Health Network is committed to being a local resource for data.  

As part of our efforts to provide data on COVID-19 for Highlands, Hardee and DeSoto Counties, we created a graph that displays the number of COVID-19 positive cases, hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and deaths due to COVID-19 in each county, as reported on our Facebook Page from the data available from the Florida Department of Health.  

We will continue to update this graphic Monday - Friday, posting the updated graphs here and on our Facebook Page by 4 pm on work days. The Florida DOH updates their data once daily at about 11 am.  This data is verified as accurate as of 7 am that day - therefore, you can assume the data is about a day behind.  

**Last Updated approximately 6:30 pm 7/1/2020

We have noticed that the Inconclusive and Awaiting testing data is not updated regularly, so we ceased to report on that data.  

                                      DeSoto County Numbers 7.1.20                                     
COVID-19 Positive Cases: 634                        # Tested: 4,734
COVID-19 Hospitalizations: 60                   
COVID-19 Deaths: 10                                           % Positive: 13.4%

Change over last 24 hours:
Positive Cases + 30                                                 Tested + 161
Hospitalizations + 1
​Deaths  No Change                                          % Positive + 0.2%

*Note that the DeSoto Number of deaths reported by the Florida DOH for all of last week has been edited down 1 to 7 people (as of 6/1) and the number of hospitalizations was changed from 60 to 59 from 6/29 to 6/30. We have reached out to confirm this is accurate and requested an explanation.  We will post this information once received.

                                       Hardee  County Numbers 7.1.20                                     
COVID-19 Positive Cases: 440                       # Tested: 2,502
COVID-19 Hospitalizations: 44                   
COVID-19 Deaths: 3                                          ​% Positive: 17.6%

Change over last 24 hours:
Positive Cases + 10                                                     Tested + 28
Hospitalizations + 3
​Deaths  No Change                                                % Positive + 0.2%

                                 Highlands County Numbers 7.1.20                                     
COVID-19 Positive Cases: 365                      # Tested: 9,239
COVID-19 Hospitalizations: 67                  
COVID-19 Deaths: 11                                        % Positive: 4.0%

​Change over last 24 hours:
Positive Cases + 15                                                  Tested + 455
Hospitalizations + 2
​Deaths  No Change                                           % Positive No Change