Quantcast

St. Pete Standard

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Pinellas County COVID-19 Update: 98.5% of infected residents alive as of May 31

Surgery

98.5 percent of Pinellas County COVID-19 patients have survived as of May 31, according to the COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

The CSSE confirmed there were 218,694 COVID-19 cases in Pinellas County by May 31.

There were 3,377 fatalities, equalling 1.5 percent of Pinellas County's COVID-19 patients.

More than 50 percent of US citizens are considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19, nearing the target for "herd immunity." Herd immunity happens when enough of the population has become immune to the virus from previous infection that it effectively protects those who are not immune.

"The number of people who are immune to the coronavirus is increasing every day," professors David Dowdy and Gypsyamber D'Souza said in an interview.

MORE NEWS