Walton County COVID19 Updates

June 22 Walton County Emergency Operations Center - Joint Information Center - COVID-19 Case Update

Today, Walton County has 5 additional positive cases. (Information as released by DOH-Walton)

Walton County's has had 2,959 tests conducted resulting in 186 positives and 2,767 negatives. There has been a total of 9 deaths.

Updated demographic information on cumulative cases.
• DeFuniak Springs (100)
• Santa Rosa Beach (35)
• Freeport (13)
• Miramar Beach (7)
• Ponce de Leon (4)
• Paxton-Laurel Hill (1)
• Gaskin (1)
• Westville (1)
• Non-Residents (24)

June 23
Walton County Emergency Operations Center - Joint Information Center
COVID-19 Case Update

Today, Walton County has 6 additional positive cases. (Information as released by DOH-Walton)

Two of these cases are non-residents.

Walton County's has had 3,020 tests conducted resulting in 191 positives and 2,827 negatives. There has been a total of 9 deaths.

Updated demographic information on cumulative cases.

• DeFuniak Springs (100)
• Santa Rosa Beach (38)
• Freeport (13)
• Miramar Beach (7)
• Ponce de Leon (4)
• Paxton-Laurel Hill (1)
• Gaskin (1)
• Westville (1)
• Non-Residents (26)

The Walton County Board of County Commissioners will hold a Special Meeting on Thursday, June 25, 2020, immediately following the scheduled BCC Planning Meeting at the DeFuniak Springs Courthouse Boardroom. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss COVID-19 measures prior to the July 4th weekend.

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Interesting..... As of yesterday, there are TWO Florida health "Dashboard" posting COVID state and county statistics--and the two sides are wildly different.

The older site is posted by the Department of Health--and Dashboard data for the site appears to be missing, with the flag that the site is "not properly configured".

The newer site apparently has been created by the ex-Department of Health that used to run the DOH dashboard, who since has been fired. Data on this side is significantly different (higher) than what used to be posted in the DOH website.

Frustrating.... Unable to do any trending due to the two inconsistent/conflicting websites--one with no data at all(!). In addition, there are other sites with Florida COVID data....and these tend to conflict with either of the two I've tried to use.

Sorry, but there's no value in me posting trending data, when the data is useless.

Does the Florida Department of Health have "it's act together", or is there an on-going political battle that had clouded the fact that as residents, we need honest, accurate, and consistent data??????

Florida reports record 5,508 new cases of corona virus
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Interesting..... As of yesterday, there are TWO Florida health "Dashboard" posting COVID state and county statistics--and the two sides are wildly different.

The older site is posted by the Department of Health--and Dashboard data for the site appears to be missing, with the flag that the site is "not properly configured".

The newer site apparently has been created by the ex-Department of Health that used to run the DOH dashboard, who since has been fired. Data on this side is significantly different (higher) than what used to be posted in the DOH website.

Frustrating.... Unable to do any trending due to the two inconsistent/conflicting websites--one with no data at all(!). In addition, there are other sites with Florida COVID data....and these tend to conflict with either of the two I've tried to use.

Sorry, but there's no value in me posting trending data, when the data is useless.

Does the Florida Department of Health have "it's act together", or is there an on-going political battle that had clouded the fact that as residents, we need honest, accurate, and consistent data??????

I'm fairly sure it is the ongoing politics versus public health battle. Politicians, especially the ones we have now at the Federal and State levels, cannot function or get re-elected without "economic growth". With no other way to justify their agenda, they will simply try to muddle up the data, and complicate the testing as long as they can. Our County officials have no clue how to proceed. There is no leadership at any level, so we have to "crowd source" some level of intelligence and empathy towards our fellow human beings. The only thing I can find to do is continue to wear my mask and practice distancing, and just continue to do so, whether anybody else does it or not.

JUNE 24
Walton County Emergency Operations Center - Joint Information Center COVID-19 Case Update

Today, Walton County has 7 additional positive cases.

Walton County's has had 3,042 tests conducted resulting in 198 positives and 2,839 negatives. There has been a total of 9 deaths.

Updated demographic information on cumulative cases.

• DeFuniak Springs (101)
• Santa Rosa Beach (41)
• Freeport (13)
• Miramar Beach (7)
• Ponce de Leon (4)
• Paxton-Laurel Hill (1)
• Gaskin (1)
• Westville (1)
• Non-Residents (29)

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)

Red or Blue it is coming for you!

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?

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.

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

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)

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

Publix now has “designer” masks...

Publix now has “designer” masks...

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

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

Not in Publix.

Not in Publix.

Thanks for the tip.