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The Governor's Daily Brief - 8/26/20
TODAY'S TAKEAWAYS |
Positive COVID test results continue to stay below 10%
13th straight day below 10%
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Scroll to the bottom and read about the contributions our agencies and departments are making to Florida
Positive COVID test results continue to stay below 10%
13th straight day below 10%
Are you ready for some football?
Scroll to the bottom and read about the contributions our agencies and departments are making to Florida
Ron DeSantis assures opening stadiums to fans is safe, even in Miami-Dade
Tampa Bay Times
MIAMI GARDENS — Gov. Ron DeSantis declared Miami-Dade County safe enough to partially fill stadiums for live sporting events as newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Florida hit the lowest single-day amount reported since June 14.
At Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Monday afternoon, DeSantis discussed a state order that preempts local rules on sporting events, therefore allowing Miami-Dade County to welcome some fans to attend Miami Dolphins and University of Miami Hurricanes games this season.
According to the Miami Dolphins, 13,000 fans — or 20 percent capacity — will be permitted to attend the Dolphin’s home opener against the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Hurricanes’ home opener against the University of Alabama at Birmingham next month. Season-ticket holders get first dibs, according to the Dolphins.
Yet it’s still unclear what other sports franchises were going to do. Other teams like the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs are similarly allowing fans to attend games in a limited capacity. DeSantis said the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars are “working on their own plans.”
DeSantis Says COVID Is a Lower Risk for School-Aged Kids Than Flu
Kaiser Health News
Even as his state is a hotbed for COVID-19, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been pushing schools to reopen so parents have the choice of sending children back to the classroom or keeping them home to learn virtually. The Republican governor has said children without any underlying health conditions would benefit from in-person learning and the stimulation and companionship of being among other young people. He has also made clear that he thinks these benefits far outweigh what he considers to be minimal risks.
“The fact is, in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza,” DeSantis said, during an Aug. 10 televised roundtable discussion on education.
DeSantis’ assertion got us wondering, so we asked the governor’s office what evidence it had to back up the claim.
Looking at the Numbers
A spokesperson responded with data from the Florida Department of Health showing the state’s COVID-19 mortality rate is 0.02% for people 24 and younger. That’s the same as the influenza mortality rate for this age group.
But for children 14 and younger, the spokesperson said, Florida’s COVID-19 mortality rate is 0.009%, far below the 0.01% for flu for that age group.
And the risk of death is not the only concern children face if infected by the COVID-19 virus. They can develop complications that require hospitalization.
Risky Business -- Can we trust our fellow citizens to weigh the consequences of their actions?
City Journal
College has been back in session barely a week, and already we see pictures of large, unmasked parties, followed by reports of Covid-19 outbreaks and then a move to online classes. It has already happened at the University of North Carolina and Notre Dame, and we can expect more to come. The students seem so reckless and irresponsible; they just ruined their college semester, and now they and their non-partying fellow students must go back to online learning. The parties appear to be walking, breathing, and disease-spreading evidence that human beings are irrational and can’t understand risk.
Our economy and public health now depend on our fellow citizens making sensible risk choices. Managing our lives in the age of the coronavirus is an especially difficult risk problem. We must weigh carefully the risks involved in the activities we choose because our choices affect others. People are notoriously bad at making decisions under uncertainty; they are perhaps even worse at accounting for how their choices impact others.
New Thinking on Covid Lockdowns: They’re Overly Blunt and Costly
The Wall Street Journal
In response to the novel and deadly coronavirus, many governments deployed draconian tactics never used in modern times: severe and broad restrictions on daily activity that helped send the world into its deepest peacetime slump since the Great Depression.
The equivalent of 400 million jobs have been lost world-wide, 13 million in the U.S. alone. Global output is on track to fall 5% this year, far worse than during the financial crisis, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The FDA’s Good Plasma Decision
The Wall Street Journal
Here we go again. President Trump hypes a Covid-19 therapy that has shown potential based on early studies. The Food and Drug Administration approves the treatment for emergency use and gets lambasted for letting politics influence the science.
This is what occurred with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and now is happening with convalescent plasma, which the FDA on Sunday granted “emergency use authorization” (EUA). Mr. Trump was wrong to tweet over the weekend that “the deep state” at the FDA was thwarting development..
Tampa Bay Times
MIAMI GARDENS — Gov. Ron DeSantis declared Miami-Dade County safe enough to partially fill stadiums for live sporting events as newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Florida hit the lowest single-day amount reported since June 14.
At Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Monday afternoon, DeSantis discussed a state order that preempts local rules on sporting events, therefore allowing Miami-Dade County to welcome some fans to attend Miami Dolphins and University of Miami Hurricanes games this season.
According to the Miami Dolphins, 13,000 fans — or 20 percent capacity — will be permitted to attend the Dolphin’s home opener against the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Hurricanes’ home opener against the University of Alabama at Birmingham next month. Season-ticket holders get first dibs, according to the Dolphins.
Yet it’s still unclear what other sports franchises were going to do. Other teams like the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs are similarly allowing fans to attend games in a limited capacity. DeSantis said the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars are “working on their own plans.”
DeSantis Says COVID Is a Lower Risk for School-Aged Kids Than Flu
Kaiser Health News
Even as his state is a hotbed for COVID-19, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been pushing schools to reopen so parents have the choice of sending children back to the classroom or keeping them home to learn virtually. The Republican governor has said children without any underlying health conditions would benefit from in-person learning and the stimulation and companionship of being among other young people. He has also made clear that he thinks these benefits far outweigh what he considers to be minimal risks.
“The fact is, in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza,” DeSantis said, during an Aug. 10 televised roundtable discussion on education.
DeSantis’ assertion got us wondering, so we asked the governor’s office what evidence it had to back up the claim.
Looking at the Numbers
A spokesperson responded with data from the Florida Department of Health showing the state’s COVID-19 mortality rate is 0.02% for people 24 and younger. That’s the same as the influenza mortality rate for this age group.
But for children 14 and younger, the spokesperson said, Florida’s COVID-19 mortality rate is 0.009%, far below the 0.01% for flu for that age group.
And the risk of death is not the only concern children face if infected by the COVID-19 virus. They can develop complications that require hospitalization.
Risky Business -- Can we trust our fellow citizens to weigh the consequences of their actions?
City Journal
College has been back in session barely a week, and already we see pictures of large, unmasked parties, followed by reports of Covid-19 outbreaks and then a move to online classes. It has already happened at the University of North Carolina and Notre Dame, and we can expect more to come. The students seem so reckless and irresponsible; they just ruined their college semester, and now they and their non-partying fellow students must go back to online learning. The parties appear to be walking, breathing, and disease-spreading evidence that human beings are irrational and can’t understand risk.
Our economy and public health now depend on our fellow citizens making sensible risk choices. Managing our lives in the age of the coronavirus is an especially difficult risk problem. We must weigh carefully the risks involved in the activities we choose because our choices affect others. People are notoriously bad at making decisions under uncertainty; they are perhaps even worse at accounting for how their choices impact others.
New Thinking on Covid Lockdowns: They’re Overly Blunt and Costly
The Wall Street Journal
In response to the novel and deadly coronavirus, many governments deployed draconian tactics never used in modern times: severe and broad restrictions on daily activity that helped send the world into its deepest peacetime slump since the Great Depression.
The equivalent of 400 million jobs have been lost world-wide, 13 million in the U.S. alone. Global output is on track to fall 5% this year, far worse than during the financial crisis, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The FDA’s Good Plasma Decision
The Wall Street Journal
Here we go again. President Trump hypes a Covid-19 therapy that has shown potential based on early studies. The Food and Drug Administration approves the treatment for emergency use and gets lambasted for letting politics influence the science.
This is what occurred with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and now is happening with convalescent plasma, which the FDA on Sunday granted “emergency use authorization” (EUA). Mr. Trump was wrong to tweet over the weekend that “the deep state” at the FDA was thwarting development..
COViD-19 by the numbers | COVID -19 Fatalities
ICUs and hospital beds by the numbers | Current as of 8/24/2020
22.35%% of ICU Beds Available Statewide
42.32%% of Pediatric ICU Beds Available Statewide
23.86%% of Available Hospital Beds Statewide
22.35%% of ICU Beds Available Statewide
42.32%% of Pediatric ICU Beds Available Statewide
23.86%% of Available Hospital Beds Statewide
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