A second Flagler County resident has died of Covid-19, Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder said this morning. The resident had been in treatment at AdventHealth Palm Coast hospital’s intensive care unit, and died in the early hours of on Easter Sunday.
Details about the individual, such as age and gender, were not immediately available, Snyder said, but were expected to be known soon. “This is not surprising given the unprecedented, tragic evolution of this novel virus, meaning new,” Snyder said, “something we’re learning about as we’re going along. I just found it to be particularly sad, but not unexpected, on Easter Sunday.”
Dorothy Strickland, 70, a resident of Flagler Beach, died of the disease on April 1. Statewide, 446 people have died of Covid-19 so far, out of 19,000 confirmed cases as of Saturday. Cases were expected to reach 20,000 by the end of the weekend. There were 46 confirmed cases in Flagler County as of Saturday evening, including two non-residents. The Department of Health does not indicate how