Hospitalizations from COVID-19 are down, and so is the positivity rate for new cases The positivity rate in Friday's report fell to 3.06%, the lowest since Health News Florida began tracking data daily in July. No state updates were issued over the three-day weekend. The Florida Department of Health did not publish COVID-19 reports over the Memorial Day weekend, but Friday's data reflected the continued trend of improvement. The number of people hospitalized in Florida due to COVID-19 fell to just over 2,000, the lowest since Health News Florida began keeping tabs on state data last summer. As of Friday afternoon, there were 2,002 people hospitalized in Florida with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration. That's almost one-fifth of the approximately 9,500 people hospitalized in mid-July, when cases of coronavirus were spiking in Florida.