Florida - Coronavirus Covid-19 #2

[mommadukes]

CORONAVIRUS: What went wrong in Florida? Timing, testing, tourism and a COVID-19 crush

 

[margarita25]

If COVID-19 keeps spreading, lockdown could be only weeks away

 

[margarita25]

“With 10,328 new COVID-19 cases, the total count rose to 337,569, according to figures released by the Florida Department of Health. The state has seen a large increase in cases in the past several weeks, with more than 83,000 cases confirmed in the last seven days, about 25% of the total count.

Florida also reported 90 deaths Saturday, bringing the death toll to 4,895. Deaths are reported when confirmed to be COVID-related; about a third of the 90 added in Saturday’s report occurred before last Monday.”

Florida Adds 10,328 Coronavirus Cases, 90 Virus-Related Deaths Saturday

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Not sure if this has been posted. Miami Dade info

https://www.miamidade.gov/information/library/2020-07-16-new-normal-dashboard.pdf

 

[mommadukes]

Florida Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics sends letter to DeSantis

I appreciate the fact that the author of this article attached a copy of the entire letter from the AAP, for transparency.

 

[ArianeEmory]

US coronavirus:
Florida reports more than 12,000 new Covid-19 cases, again, as governor declines to mandate masks

 

[PayrollNerd]

There are no ICU beds available at 49 Florida hospitals
From CNN's Randi Kaye in West Palm Beach

There are no ICU beds available at 49 Florida hospitals

There are 49 hospitals in Florida with 0% ICU beds available, according to Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration website as of 3 p.m. EST Sunday.

Five of those hospitals are in Broward County, just north of Miami Dade, which now has an overnight curfew in place from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily.

Broward saw about 10,000 new cases in a week and has a positivity rate hovering just under 17%.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Miami-Dade ICUs are at 127% capacity
From CNN's Randi Kaye in West Palm Beach, FL and Melissa Alonso in Atlanta

Coronavirus update: Latest news from around the world

Florida currently has 9,351 Covid-19 related hospitalizations, an increase of 189 since Saturday morning, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).

Miami-Dade County alone has 2,008 hospitalizations while Broward County has 1,240 hospitalizations, AHCA data shows.

Miami-Dade County ICUs are at 127% capacity with 507 admissions and 398 bed capacity, according to data from the county. According to Miami-Dade County's daily summary, "this percentage represents the number of COVID positive patients utilizing hospital beds; does not include the 1,259 acute care and ICU beds that may be converted."

 

[BUF]

Today's Headlines: Florida's state of confusion

Florida is now the U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last week, it reported more than 80,000 new cases, well ahead of California and Texas, two much larger states that are also struggling to contain the virus.

Yet in much of Florida, the response to the crisis has been little more than a shrug. Disney World has reopened, restaurants and shopping malls are crowded, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has invited four professional sports leagues and the Republican National Convention.

Over the last month, Florida has seen its caseload jump from fewer than 90,000 to more than 350,000. The death toll has climbed from 3,104 to 4,982, the eighth highest in the country. At least 54 hospitals across Florida have reported that their intensive care wards are full. One person in Florida is dying of COVID-19 about every 14 minutes now.

DeSantis has blamed the failure to contain the virus on the media, Latino day laborers, expanded testing, young people and parties, among other things. On Wednesday, he said delayed test results were the problem. Yet even as the numbers surged, DeSantis pledged not to impose new shelter-in-place rules, began pushing for schools to reopen and refused calls to issue a statewide order mandating face coverings in public.

 

[mommadukes]

Today's Headlines: Florida's state of confusion

Florida is now the U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last week, it reported more than 80,000 new cases, well ahead of California and Texas, two much larger states that are also struggling to contain the virus.

Yet in much of Florida, the response to the crisis has been little more than a shrug. Disney World has reopened, restaurants and shopping malls are crowded, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has invited four professional sports leagues and the Republican National Convention.

Over the last month, Florida has seen its caseload jump from fewer than 90,000 to more than 350,000. The death toll has climbed from 3,104 to 4,982, the eighth highest in the country. At least 54 hospitals across Florida have reported that their intensive care wards are full. One person in Florida is dying of COVID-19 about every 14 minutes now.

DeSantis has blamed the failure to contain the virus on the media, Latino day laborers, expanded testing, young people and parties, among other things. On Wednesday, he said delayed test results were the problem. Yet even as the numbers surged, DeSantis pledged not to impose new shelter-in-place rules, began pushing for schools to reopen and refused calls to issue a statewide order mandating face coverings in public.

How does DeSantis get up every morning and look at himself in the mirror and truly believe the decisions he continues to make have nothing to do with these numbers?

 

[oviedo]

Today's Headlines: Florida's state of confusion

Florida is now the U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last week, it reported more than 80,000 new cases, well ahead of California and Texas, two much larger states that are also struggling to contain the virus.

Yet in much of Florida, the response to the crisis has been little more than a shrug. Disney World has reopened, restaurants and shopping malls are crowded, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has invited four professional sports leagues and the Republican National Convention.

Over the last month, Florida has seen its caseload jump from fewer than 90,000 to more than 350,000. The death toll has climbed from 3,104 to 4,982, the eighth highest in the country. At least 54 hospitals across Florida have reported that their intensive care wards are full. One person in Florida is dying of COVID-19 about every 14 minutes now.

DeSantis has blamed the failure to contain the virus on the media, Latino day laborers, expanded testing, young people and parties, among other things. On Wednesday, he said delayed test results were the problem. Yet even as the numbers surged, DeSantis pledged not to impose new shelter-in-place rules, began pushing for schools to reopen and refused calls to issue a statewide order mandating face coverings in public.

This reminds of his press conference where he was so smug - late april early may? he said everyone was wrong - blah blah blah - we didn't have the numbers that were predicted, etc. yet- here we are....
JMO

 

[BUF]

This reminds of his press conference where he was so smug - late april early may? he said everyone was wrong - blah blah blah - we didn't have the numbers that were predicted, etc. yet- here we are....
JMO

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[PayrollNerd]

How does DeSantis get up every morning and look at himself in the mirror and truly believe the decisions he continues to make have nothing to do with these numbers?

I swear he's paid to remain in denial..... follow the money, always follow the money. It's not about lives. I honestly don't think even if him or a close friend or family member got the virus, he would change his tune. JMO

 

[BUF]

Wonder what today’s excuse will be...

https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-coronavirus-cases-july-20/33367599#

Florida reported 10,347 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, marking the 6th day in a row the state has reported more than 10,000 new cases.

Testing was down from the previous day's report by 37,000 and the percent positive of new cases was up.

The state also reported 90 new deaths on Monday.

Florida surpassed 5,000 resident deaths with Monday’s total. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,072 Florida residents have died after contracting COVID-19.

 

[oviedo]

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yes, thank you. I wish the media would re-publish this now.

ETA: there was one that also mocked the numbers projected and it might have been part of this one but the clip is short.
thanks @BUF

 

[Warwick1991]

Against the trend of many large businesses, Jacksonville, FL -based Winn-Dixie will not require masks. Winn Dixie doesn't require masks, while other supermarkets do

This is where my no-mask, aggressive Shipt shopper came from last week... I’d had a terrible time with Publix’s Instacart delivery, so I’d been using Winn-Dixie and Shipt. I also use Walmart and Whole Foods delivery, so I will stick with those 2. I would be concerned about sanitation in general at a store with no masks. Masks optional for staff..... Certainly no deli orders....

 

[oviedo]

‘You have blood on your hands:’ Protesters interrupt Florida governor’s coronavirus update in Orlando

A news conference Gov. Ron DeSantis hosted in Orlando Monday afternoon to push for convalescent plasma donations to help COVID-19 patients got off to a rocky start as protesters interrupted just minutes into his remarks.

At first, the governor tried to continue on with his speech but when he realized his words were being drowned out, he paused and gave an uncomfortable smile.

He then laughed as protesters were being escorted out. No arrests were made.

bringing over from the MT.

 

[BUF]

bringing over from the MT.

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[Steph8angels]

‘If It’s Here, It’s Here’: America’s Retirees Confront the Virus in Florida

THE VILLAGES, Fla. — For months, many of the residents at one of America’s biggest retirement communities went about their lives as if the coronavirus barely existed. They played bridge. They held dances. They went to house parties in souped-up golf carts that looked like miniature Jaguars and Rolls-Royces.

And for months they appeared to have avoided the worst of the pandemic. From March through mid-June, there were fewer than 100 cases in the Villages, a sprawling community in Central Florida where about 120,000 people mostly 55 and older live.

But now as cases spike across Florida, the virus appears to have caught up with the residents of the Villages.

Since the beginning of July, hospital admissions of residents from the Villages have quadrupled at University of Florida Health The Villages, the hospital’s critical care doctors said. As of last week, the hospital admitted 29 Villages residents, all of them with the virus, said Dr. Anil Gogineni, a pulmonologist and critical care doctor there. That was up from the single digits three weeks before.

In Sumter County, the biggest of three counties where most of the Villages is concentrated, the number of cases ballooned from 68 in the first week of June to more than 270 last week, according to the county’s health department.

The Villages is a sprawling palm-tree-lined complex so big it has three ZIP codes, 12 golf courses and multiple libraries and movie theaters, drawing affluent retirees from all over the country.

Now many residents are confronting their new reality. “It’s seeping in, no matter what,” Rob Hannon, 64, said as he sipped a beer, adding that “friends that would come down for years are saying, ‘We’re not going to go.’”

More @ link
A must read
10% due to WS TOS
Stay safe
Steph/out
You are all wonderful on this thread
Thank you for all your posts
At keeping it real......

 

[margarita25]

At least 53 Florida hospitals are out of ICU beds

“As of Monday afternoon, 9,508 people are hospitalized in the state of Florida due to coronavirus related illness, according to data released by Florida’s Agency for Healthcare administration (ACHA).

There are now 53 hospitals in Florida without any ICU beds, according to the ACHA. That number is up from 50 this morning.

Statewide, Florida stands at 18.12% capacity for “available adult ICU hospital beds."

Earlier today, Miami-Dade County's Covid-19 dashboard showed ICU capacity in the county was at 130.20%, up from 127% on Sunday. And as of Monday, 513 Covid-19 ICU admissions were recorded. The ICU bed capacity in the county is 394, according to county data.”

At least 53 Florida hospitals are out of ICU beds