Updated at 2:45 p.m. Dec. 14:
Please reference the prior updates and Escambia County COVID-19 Update #11 for a prior comprehensive running list. This update only includes new information we have received. Weekend updates will be distributed only when there is new information.
Escambia County
- Hospital Information totals
- Hospitalizations 146 (current hospitalizations as of 2:30 p.m. Dec. 14, 2020)
- Bed Capacity 1,397 (as of 8:55 a.m. Dec. 14, 2020 (county SITREP)
- Bed Occupancy 972 (as of 8:55 a.m. Dec. 14, 2020 (county SITREP)
- Beds Available 425 (as of 2:30 p.m. Dec. 14, 2020)
- Total Ventilators 215 (as of 2:30 p.m. Dec. 14, 2020)
- Available Ventilators 137 (as of 2:30 p.m. Dec. 14, 2020)
Testing sites
Rapid testing information
Escambia County dashboard
Escambia County Corrections
- Cumulatively, 826 Escambia County inmates have been tested:
- 213 positive (196 have been medically cleared, and 17 have been released from custody, leaving no active, positive cases at this time)
- 613 negative
- 0 pending
- At the Walton County jail, 29 Escambia County inmates tested positive out of the 146 inmates housed there.
Florida Department of Health in Escambia County
Governor's Update
- Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference at Tampa General Hospital to announce the arrival of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Florida. Following the press conference, the vaccine was administered to Vanessa Arroyo, a frontline nurse in Tampa General’s Teneja Family Global Emerging Diseases Institute, the hospital’s COVID unit.