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.

Our partners at Central Florida Health Care have also created a COVID-19 page dedicated to Testing Opportunities at their clinics or through their mobile units.  This covers Highlands, Hardee, and Polk Counties.  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 (except Holidays), 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 4:15 PM 10/22/2020

Due to the Florida Department of Health not posting data for 10/21/2020 before COB, the numbers were pulled and posted on the morning of 10/22.  

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

Note that due to weather, state-run COVID-19 testing sites are being shut down starting 5 pm on July 30th.  Sites should be reopened by 8 am on August 5th.  Check with your local testing sites to verify availability during these times.  

This will effect testing numbers and all data points for the weeks of July 30th - August 14th.

                                      DeSoto County Numbers 10.22.20                                    
COVID-19 Positive Cases: 1,641                   # Tested: 11,688
COVID-19 Hospitalizations: 129                   
COVID-19 Deaths: 29                                           % Positive: 14.0%

Change over last 24 hours:
Positive Cases+ 5                                                       Tested + 41
​Hospitalizations No Change
​​Deaths No Change                                                     % Positive No Change
*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 10.22.20                                  
COVID-19 Positive Cases: 1,558                    # Tested: 8,610
COVID-19 Hospitalizations: 141                   
COVID-19 Deaths: 16                                          ​% Positive: 18.1%

Change over last 24 hours:
Positive Cases + 11                                                    Tested + 45
Hospitalizations No Change
​Deaths + 2                                                                     % Positive No Change

​                                 Highlands County Numbers 10.22.20                                   
COVID-19 Positive Cases: 2,499                      # Tested: 23,395
​COVID-19 Hospitalizations: 265                 
COVID-19 Deaths: 111                                            % Positive: 10.7%

​Change over last 24 hours:
Positive Cases + 21                                                          Tested + 170
Hospitalizations + 1
​Deaths + 6                                                                       % Positive No Change
*Note that the Highlands Number of hospitalizations was changed from 208 to 207 from 9/9 to 9/10. We have reached out to confirm this is accurate and requested an explanation.  We will post this information once received.