Florida - Coronavirus Covid-19 #2

[MaryG12]

FDOH confirms more than 6,300 new COVID-19 cases in Florida

 

[oviedo]

Florida Education Association argues mandate requiring schools to reopen is unconstitutional
Florida coronavirus: State surpasses 10,000 resident deaths

Orange County students return to schools Friday

Coronavirus case linked to Seminole County elementary school
It's only the beginning...
JMO

 

[mickey2942]

Florida coronavirus: A 6-year-old girl is the state's youngest Covid-19 fatality - CNN

 

[PayrollNerd]

I guess if you need a theme park that bad they’ll allow you to put your life and your families lives at risk. Foolishness.

Florida governor supports Disney, Universal and state theme parks easing COVID-19 capacity limits

 

[oviedo]

Fired Florida data scientist running online dashboard to track COVID-19 cases in Florida schools

I really think tracking Covid in schools is important!
JMO

posted in MT

 

[JudgeJoe]

Florida Education Association argues mandate requiring schools to reopen is unconstitutional
Florida coronavirus: State surpasses 10,000 resident deaths

Orange County students return to schools Friday

Coronavirus case linked to Seminole County elementary school
It's only the beginning...
JMO

Unfortunately this win didn’t help teachers & students in counties still pushing forward with classes. Pinellas, for example, gave each teacher ONE 8oz bottle of hand sanitizer & sent them in. All other promised PPE is still “on backorder”. Promised reduced class size... didn’t happen. Student masks all too big. Primary students mask elastic broken from day 1. No replacement masks available. Students eating breakfast in their rooms- masks off. Aerosols floating about. The board decision to proceed anyway was made virtually. Going to be some big money lawsuit wins a couple years from now. Jmo
Pinellas sticks with school reopening plan, despite court ruling

 

[PayrollNerd]

I actually was speaking to a few people today both mentioned they knew people who got in line to test at a drive in site. The 3 parties completed their paperwork but the site ran out of tests prior to getting their turn. So they left but all 3 parties received a message stating they were positive but none had actually been tested!!!

Florida reports more than 2,500 new Covid-19 cases and 14 deaths
Florida health officials reported 2,583 new Covid-19 cases and 14 additional resident deaths on Sunday, according to the Florida Department of Health (DOH).

This is the lowest daily death figure reported by the state since June 22 when 12 deaths were reported, CNN's tally showed.

 

[JudgeJoe]

I actually was speaking to a few people today both mentioned they knew people who got in line to test at a drive in site. The 3 parties completed their paperwork but the site ran out of tests prior to getting their turn. So they left but all 3 parties received a message stating they were positive but none had actually been tested!!!

Florida reports more than 2,500 new Covid-19 cases and 14 deaths
Florida health officials reported 2,583 new Covid-19 cases and 14 additional resident deaths on Sunday, according to the Florida Department of Health (DOH).

This is the lowest daily death figure reported by the state since June 22 when 12 deaths were reported, CNN's tally showed.

Omg. Shaking head. What county sent the imaginary results?

 

[PayrollNerd]

Omg. Shaking head. What county sent the imaginary results?

Not 100% but definitely SWFL. The one lady lives in south Sarasota County so it was probably there. The other lady works in Sarasota County but I don't know which friend she was referring to.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Florida logs 14 coronavirus deaths on Sunday; smallest daily death total since June
Snips:
State health officials have cautioned that counts are frequently below average on Sundays and Mondays because not all hospitals and health officials work over the weekends.

Sunday’s update brings the total number of coronavirus infections being tracked by the state to 621,586 and the total number of fatalities tied to the virus to 11,263 since Florida’s pandemic began on March 1.

Florida reported 96 new hospitalizations on Sunday. Since the outbreak began, Florida hospitals have admitted 38,857 patients for treatment of COVID-19, the respiratory infection caused by the coronavirus.

 

[MaryG12]

Omg. Shaking head. What county sent the imaginary results?

Mine.


Discrepancies found in Sarasota County’s COVID-19 death toll

Fewer coronavirus patients in Sarasota and Manatee counties

I am still trying to figure out how the one-time toilet paper shortage factors in to COVID-19. Last I heard, COVID-19 is not a gastro-intestinal disease. Or did that change.

Now the coin shortage.

Truly bizzare.

 

[JudgeJoe]

Not 100% but definitely SWFL. The one lady lives in south Sarasota County so it was probably there. The other lady works in Sarasota County but I don't know which friend she was referring to.

I hope there comes to be a day when these false positives- especially the imaginary ones- are thoroughly investigated for fraud. I’m not clear how the corona bonus works for clinics & counties- or how fraud could be sooooooo widespread as to be conspiracy of sorts, but these fake positives are waaaaay to common. Just boggles the mind.

 

[MaryG12]

I hope there comes to be a day when these false positives- especially the imaginary ones- are thoroughly investigated for fraud. I’m not clear how the corona bonus works for clinics & counties- or how fraud could be sooooooo widespread as to be conspiracy of sorts, but these fake positives are waaaaay to common. Just boggles the mind.

Mm, me too. I know of two people who went to get tested, had their names on the list, never actually got tested, then a few weeks later got a letter in the mail stating they tested positive.

You cannot make this up.

Then I know of at least one person in town who thinks COVID-19 is going to disappear from the planet on November 3 of this year.

I want a new rock to live on.

 

[mickey2942]

I hope there comes to be a day when these false positives- especially the imaginary ones- are thoroughly investigated for fraud. I’m not clear how the corona bonus works for clinics & counties- or how fraud could be sooooooo widespread as to be conspiracy of sorts, but these fake positives are waaaaay to common. Just boggles the mind.

That seems to happen all over.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Well ok then. The results were sent to the patients but not the Health Dept / state???

Florida drops Quest for coronavirus testing after lab reports backlog of 75,000 test results
Snips:
Quest attributed the delay in reporting to a “technical issue,” adding that the affected test results are just 75,000 of the roughly 1.4 million coronavirus tests Quest has processed in Florida.

“We apologize for this matter and regret the challenge it poses for public health authorities in Florida. The issue has since been resolved. Importantly, the issue did not affect or delay reporting of test results to providers and patients,” Wendy Bost, a spokeswoman for Quest, said in a statement to CNBC. “We remain open to working with the state Department of Health to provide testing that meets the needs required for patient care and public health response.”

 

[mickey2942]

Well ok then. The results were sent to the patients but not the Health Dept / state???

Florida drops Quest for coronavirus testing after lab reports backlog of 75,000 test results
Snips:
Quest attributed the delay in reporting to a “technical issue,” adding that the affected test results are just 75,000 of the roughly 1.4 million coronavirus tests Quest has processed in Florida.

“We apologize for this matter and regret the challenge it poses for public health authorities in Florida. The issue has since been resolved. Importantly, the issue did not affect or delay reporting of test results to providers and patients,” Wendy Bost, a spokeswoman for Quest, said in a statement to CNBC. “We remain open to working with the state Department of Health to provide testing that meets the needs required for patient care and public health response.”

You can't make this stuff up. Without the Department of Health included, there is no contact tracing happening.

 

[MaryG12]

Florida cuts ties with Quest Diagnostics after ‘unacceptable’ data dump of nearly 75K coronavirus test results

 

[Steph8angels]

Here we go........
DeSantis lifting Florida’s coronavirus-related ban on visiting nursing homes

The task force recommends families visit their loved ones two at a time and wear protective equipment including masks. Facilities would be required to go 14 days without any new COVID-19 cases among staff or residents to allow visits.

Around 62 percent of Florida facilities have not had a new coronavirus case since Aug. 11, according to Mary Mayhew, head of the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration, who led the task force.

Only 10% of residents at each facility could have visitors per day and only two people were allowed to visit a resident at a time. Staff and administrators at several senior living facilities urged the governor Tuesday to revisit the 28-day rule, saying the pandemic has made issues prevalent in nursing homes such as social isolation and loneliness worse.

More @link
Thinking of you all !!!
Stay safe

 

[Steph8angels]

And this
More than 400 in quarantine because of COVID cases at Central Florida schools

Nearly 450 Central Florida public school students and staff are in quarantine this week after positive COVID-19 tests were reported from their schools, officials said Tuesday.

That number includes 199 people quarantined in Orange County, 158 in Seminole County, at least 72 in Osceola County and at least 19 in Lake County. Some students and staff quarantined in Osceola and Lake last week could remain so this week, but they are not included in their county totals reported this week.

The quarantine total doesn’t count another 595 students who were sent home Friday when an Osceola middle school closed. Harmony Middle School shut down for two weeks after a group of teachers tested positive or were waiting on test results.

The tallies from all four school districts are only from traditional public schools, not charter schools. Combined, the four school districts enroll nearly 400,000 students.

More @ link
Very concerned for all especially
Nursing homes, students and teachers.
As this phase continues to open up.
Stay safe
Steph/out

 

[mickey2942]

Here we go........
DeSantis lifting Florida’s coronavirus-related ban on visiting nursing homes

The task force recommends families visit their loved ones two at a time and wear protective equipment including masks. Facilities would be required to go 14 days without any new COVID-19 cases among staff or residents to allow visits.

Around 62 percent of Florida facilities have not had a new coronavirus case since Aug. 11, according to Mary Mayhew, head of the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration, who led the task force.

Only 10% of residents at each facility could have visitors per day and only two people were allowed to visit a resident at a time. Staff and administrators at several senior living facilities urged the governor Tuesday to revisit the 28-day rule, saying the pandemic has made issues prevalent in nursing homes such as social isolation and loneliness worse.

More @link
Thinking of you all !!!
Stay safe

I believe that the visitors are probably less likely to have the virus, than the staff. The visitors are more than likely elderly, retired, with limited social contacts. Whereas the staff, are younger, with school age children, often minorities, who live in housing with extended family members.

Probably, this will just accelerate the deaths of elderly people in the community. But, I understand their frustration. Here in Montana, I have seen a lot of visits and socializing outside of ALF's. Large round tables, fresh air, sunshine, every one wearing a mask. Everyone looked very happy to me.