7,000 Floridians hospitalized with COVID-19;

[Stuart G]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

Nearly 7,000 Floridians are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, according to new county-by-county data released Friday by the state Agency for Health Care Administration.

The data, which for the first time breaks down the number of people in the hospital with coronavirus, was promised by the state two weeks ago.

As of Friday, Miami-Dade had more than 1,500 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the largest number reported in Florida, followed by Broward County at 970 and Palm Beach County at 600. Orange County had the fourth-largest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations at 478.

Up to now, Florida has been one of only three states to withhold current COVID-19 hospitalization data from the public. Experts have criticized the state for not releasing the data, which is a valuable metric for epidemiologists and researchers in assessing the spread of the disease. Hospitalizations provide a glimpse of what was happening two weeks ago when people were being exposed to the virus.

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-county-hospitalizations-ahca-20200710-5fpnosf2m5feteib5gtwb3lkz4-story.html

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...Friday eve news dump, when people are not watching the news..

Trump pardons Stone, an effort to take focus away from the above incredible story,.7000 now in hospitals due to virus.

Most hospital beds full...State releases data Friday night..

[soothsayer]

1. Disney opens tomorrow I believe

Yay?

[sure why not]

2. Florida & Texas have NO Consumer Protection

[riversedge]

3. @GovronDeSantis is a selfish #Trump booklicker--at the expence of Florida's citizens.

[SergeStorms]

4. And you can bet those numbers have been cooked...

to protect governor DeSatan. I'd like to know the actual number of sick, hospitalized, and dead from the corona virus in Florida. I'm willing to bet the numbers would astound everyone, except governor DeSatan, that is.

[Lowell]

5. DeSantis has alway been Trump's sock puppet

Now he's turned Florida into Trump's petri dish. He is running the state exactly the way Trump desires.
I feel like I'm going on a suicide mission every time I go grocery shopping.
DeSantis hasn't mandated the use of masks. He is going to kill our children in a few weeks. And he has invited Trump and his goons to Jacksonville soon.

[lark]

6. I'm glad they are talking about moving it outdoors, but better would be not at all/

We don't want them here, no way, no how. Don't want his ugly fat horrific hate filled ass anywhere near us and don't want the virus spread rampantly by right wing asses showing their loyalty to death and destruction. Ugh.

[TomCADem]

7. Rick Scott balks at federal aid as DeSantis waits to plug Florida's budget holes

It is not just DeSantis. In May, when DeSantis was bragging about what a good job he was doing, Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) was opposing federal aid to New York arguing that Floridians should not pay for New York's incompetence in handling the pandemic.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/05/14/rick-scott-balks-at-federal-aid-as-desantis-waits-to-plug-floridas-budget-holes/

TALLAHASSEE — A growing number of Florida Republicans are clamoring for Congress to reject providing an additional round of stimulus funding that they say would go beyond helping state and local governments deal with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has put on hold reviewing Florida’s planned $93.2 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year as he awaits congressional action on a stimulus package. But his predecessor in the governor’s office, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., was on the Senate floor Wednesday arguing that “we are bailing out liberal politicians who cannot live within their means.”

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“Now we are asking Floridians to pay for the incompetency of governors like (New York Gov.) Andrew Cuomo,” said Scott, who has been engaged in a running verbal feud with Cuomo over the pandemic response and the economies of Florida and New York.

“We can’t give hard-earned taxpayer money to poorly managed states that are going to turn around and spend it on their liberal priorities and to backfill their budget shortfalls and solve their long-standing fiscal problems,” Scott continued. “States like California, Illinois and New York have big budgets, high taxes, and tons of debt because they refuse to make the hard choices and live within their means.”