Florida. Double Whammy

[Roland99]

1) Orlando area drive up testing site reached capacity in *7 MINUTES*

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-friday-april-3-20200403-66gjkedejngszcalrvymwhdbqe-story.html

Drive-through testing near the Orange County Convention Center was made available to more people this week, but on Friday, the site had reached capacity by 9:07 a.m. Workers are continuing to test throughout the day, but won’t accept new patients until Saturday morning. The site is open daily.

“Anybody that wants a test can get a test” - trump - MARCH 6


2) Florida ICU beds at 60% full

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-hospitalizations-florida-20200403-rgylvtodhbdsdgz5fzs27sxjjq-story.html

About 60% of the state’s 6,000 ICU beds are already taken, according to Agency for Health Care Administration data on Friday evening. And it’s still about a month before experts say the state will hit its peak number of COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Charles Lockwood, dean of University of South Florida’s Health Morsani College of Medicine, said hospitalizations are a good indicator of the severity of the virus because most people who have it can recuperate at home. While the numbers of hospitalizations in Florida are startling, the situation isn’t as bad as New York so far, Lockwood said.

And, for me, the hat trick is being furloughed starting April 19. I’m fearing this will be lasting about 2-3 months

[beachbumbob]

1. just the beginning of this in Florida and as it reaches into the over 55 communities, will be

devastating as so many simply not heeding the warnings. Main reason we cut our wintering in Florida 6 weeks early and got the fuck out

[Alacritous Crier]

2. Florida...

Florida is going to be a bloodbath. Should have never happened. 100% on Trump.

[brewens]

3. "We don't want everyone in the country to get a test". That was the deflection of Yamiche Alcindor's

question at the one campaign presser. She didn't phrase the question right when she asked about when everyone could get tested, so se kind of let him get away with that one. She clearly meant everyone we need to have tested. Obviously we wouldn't make it mandatory for everyone to be tested because of all the extra unnecessary contacts it would mean. Plus using up tests needlessly.

[babylonsister]

4. They only had 250 tests, too. nt