Walton County COVID19 Updates

[James Bentwood]

A new forecast of 180,000 US deaths by October. 33,000 lives could be saved if 95% of people in US wore masks.
Coronavirus deaths projected high if no mask order

 

[SeaFern]

Just got a text from a friend that Cabana in Seaside closed for a few days...? Seaside's last post on website is June 22 but no news of store closing, but does say 4th of July events (fireworks & parade) are "suspended." Anyone confirming this?

 

[Lake View Too]

June 25 Walton County Emergency Operations Center - Joint Information Center - COVID-19 Case Update

Today, Walton County has 7 additional positive cases.
• 36-yr-old female Florida resident
• 18-yr-old male Florida resident
• 36-yr-old male Florida resident
• 61-yr-old female Florida resident
• 61-yr old male Florida resident
• 57-yr-old male Florida resident
• 37-yr old female Florida resident

Walton County's has had 3,156 tests conducted resulting in 205 positives and 2,946 negatives. There has been a total of 9 deaths.

Reminder: These numbers include all collections done by DOH-Walton that are sent to state labs for testing as well as all positives reported by private labs. Total testing and negative testing numbers do not include all testing by private labs as they may not be submitting, and are not required to submit, those numbers to the state.

Updated demographic information on cumulative cases.
• DeFuniak Springs (101)
• Santa Rosa Beach (43)
• Freeport (15)
• Miramar Beach (10)
• Ponce de Leon (4)
• Paxton-Laurel Hill (1)
• Gaskin (1)
• Westville (1)
• Non-Residents (29)

I've been copy and pasting these daily numbers to a word document to keep a running account. I just did some mathematics. In the last two weeks we have been averaging 4.9 new positive cases per day. In the 2 weeks before that, it was 1.8 new cases per day. This could be explained away as "more testing, more cases". However, the percentage of positive cases versus number of tests was 3% two weeks ago, and is now 8% for the last two weeks.

 

[Kurt]

Just got a text from a friend that Cabana in Seaside closed for a few days...? Seaside's last post on website is June 22 but no news of store closing, but does say 4th of July events (fireworks & parade) are "suspended." Anyone confirming this?

see Seaside Commercial District: Updates Summer 2020

 

[Kurt]

June 26 Walton County Emergency Operations Center - Joint Information Center - COVID-19 Case Update

Today, Friday, June 26th, Walton County has 1 additional positive case:
• 21-year old Florida Resident (Male)

Walton County's has had 3,182 tests conducted resulting in 206 positives and 2,971 negatives.

Reminder: These numbers include all collections done by DOH-Walton that are sent to state labs for testing as well as all positives reported by private labs. Total testing and negative testing numbers do not include all testing by private labs as they may not be submitting, and are not required to submit, those numbers to the state.

Updated demographic information on cumulative cases.
• DeFuniak Springs (101)
• Santa Rosa Beach (43)
• Freeport (15)
• Miramar Beach (11)
• Ponce de Leon (4)
• Paxton-Laurel Hill (1)
• Gaskin (1)
• Westville (1)
• Non-Residents (29)

 

[SeaFern]

I think locals and visitors need to know this information so they can make informed decisions. From the Seaside website:

"A few positive cases of the virus have already been reported by employees who work in Seaside."

Seaside | Seaside Commercial District Implements a Curfew

 

[happy2Bme]

Publix now has “designer” masks...

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Publix now has “designer” masks...

Designer masks have been around for at least a couple of months.

 

[happy2Bme]

Designer masks have been around for at least a couple of months.

Not in Publix.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

Not in Publix.

Thanks for the tip.