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The Governor's Morning Brief - 09/01/2020
TODAY'S TAKEAWAYS |
17th straight day with COVID positivity rates below 10%
Statewide positivity rate under 6% again
17th straight day with COVID positivity rates below 10%
Statewide positivity rate under 6% again
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: 'We will never do any of these lockdowns again'
WPTV
THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke on a range of topics related to the coronavirus Monday afternoon during a visit to Central Florida.
The governor was joined by Dr. Scott Atlas, adviser to President Donald Trump on the coronavirus pandemic, during a visit to the UF Health The Villages Hospital.
DeSantis continued to reiterate that the state is headed in the right direction in the battle against the virus.
"The number of COVID positive patients that are currently hospitalized is down nearly 60 percent statewide from our July peek," DeSantis said.
Florida's new coronavirus cases on Monday dropped below 2,000, the lowest number since June 14.
DeSantis Extends Eviction, Foreclosure Ban Again
Spectrum News 9
STATEWIDE — The moratorium on evictions and foreclosures got a late-night extension by Gov. Ron DeSantis, although moving forward it will shift some of the burden of relief back on to renters.
Landlords can file eviction actions in court, however final judgments will be withheld until the moratorium is lifted.
Renters behind on monthly payments will need to file a motion in court proving they have a coronavirus hardship causing them to miss rent payments, such as a job loss or other income reduction.
And when the hardship passes, all accrued rent payments dating back to April when the moratorium was put in place will be due.
The moratorium extension comes as bad news for landlords who have been in limbo for five months, not being able to take legal action to retrieve lost rent payments.
Gov. Ron DeSantis encourages tourists to fly to Florida on commercial flights
USA Today
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the case that tourists could safely take commercial flights to visit Florida as newly reported coronavirus cases grew by more than 3,800 Friday, down from peak averages of nearly 12,000 cases daily in mid-July.
Speaking with industry executives at an airline travel forum in Fort Lauderdale, DeSantis said he hadn't heard of any airline passenger catching the virus on a plane.
“When this industry thrives, it provides this economic security for so many people in the state of Florida," DeSantis said.
Airlines and airport executives told DeSantis the virus was having the biggest impact on international travel to Florida because many countries had implemented travel restrictions and quarantines on people traveling to and from the United States.
DeSantis said 8.8 million people traveled from March to June in Florida, down from 24 million during the same period a year earlier.
Task Force Sends Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations to Florida Governor
Spectrum News 9
Recommendations for safely reopening Florida’s long-term care facilities are now on their way to Governor Ron DeSantis, after the task force he created finalized their proposal on Wednesday.
At a roundtable discussion in Orlando, the governor said he supports limited visitation – an indication he will move forward with the plan.
“My view on all of this, since the beginning, is you got to do things to keep people safe – particularly our most vulnerable in those facilities,” DeSantis said. “But, just like anything else, you got to find a way to get stuff done, and this visitation is long overdue at this point. We’ve got to get it done.”
For many families, this move signals a long-awaited light at the end of the tunnel after being banned from visiting since March.
Task force member Mary Daniel, who made national headlines when she took a dishwashing job at her husband’s assisted living facility earlier this summer, expects it to be just a matter of days before a new emergency rule – or an amendment to the original – is put in place.
Can we test our way out of COVID-19?
The Hill
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came under attack again for its new guidelines suggesting that brief exposure to a person with COVID-19 didn't automatically mean that an asymptomatic person needed to be tested.
But Dr. Robert Redfield, CDC director, explained to me in an interview on SiriusXM's "Doctor Radio" that he was all for testing asymptomatic contacts provided that "testing should be actionable from a public health point of view." In other words, the medical personnel necessary to perform the contact tracing are essential to the process.
Last week a patient came to my office and told me that his building superintendent had been working in his apartment for several hours and later tested positive for COVID-19. My patient was asymptomatic, but I sent him for a test as a precaution. It was negative. Dr. Redfield told me that he agreed with having this patient tested, isolated, and all his contacts traced, if positive.
But even with close to 80 million COVID-19 diagnostic tests performed in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, there still is frequently a several-day delay between testing and results, which makes contact tracing very difficult. The gold standard is still the polymerase chain reaction test developed in the 1990s, which looks for the specific genetic material (nucleotide) unique for this coronavirus.
WPTV
THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke on a range of topics related to the coronavirus Monday afternoon during a visit to Central Florida.
The governor was joined by Dr. Scott Atlas, adviser to President Donald Trump on the coronavirus pandemic, during a visit to the UF Health The Villages Hospital.
DeSantis continued to reiterate that the state is headed in the right direction in the battle against the virus.
"The number of COVID positive patients that are currently hospitalized is down nearly 60 percent statewide from our July peek," DeSantis said.
Florida's new coronavirus cases on Monday dropped below 2,000, the lowest number since June 14.
DeSantis Extends Eviction, Foreclosure Ban Again
Spectrum News 9
STATEWIDE — The moratorium on evictions and foreclosures got a late-night extension by Gov. Ron DeSantis, although moving forward it will shift some of the burden of relief back on to renters.
Landlords can file eviction actions in court, however final judgments will be withheld until the moratorium is lifted.
Renters behind on monthly payments will need to file a motion in court proving they have a coronavirus hardship causing them to miss rent payments, such as a job loss or other income reduction.
And when the hardship passes, all accrued rent payments dating back to April when the moratorium was put in place will be due.
The moratorium extension comes as bad news for landlords who have been in limbo for five months, not being able to take legal action to retrieve lost rent payments.
Gov. Ron DeSantis encourages tourists to fly to Florida on commercial flights
USA Today
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the case that tourists could safely take commercial flights to visit Florida as newly reported coronavirus cases grew by more than 3,800 Friday, down from peak averages of nearly 12,000 cases daily in mid-July.
Speaking with industry executives at an airline travel forum in Fort Lauderdale, DeSantis said he hadn't heard of any airline passenger catching the virus on a plane.
“When this industry thrives, it provides this economic security for so many people in the state of Florida," DeSantis said.
Airlines and airport executives told DeSantis the virus was having the biggest impact on international travel to Florida because many countries had implemented travel restrictions and quarantines on people traveling to and from the United States.
DeSantis said 8.8 million people traveled from March to June in Florida, down from 24 million during the same period a year earlier.
Task Force Sends Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations to Florida Governor
Spectrum News 9
Recommendations for safely reopening Florida’s long-term care facilities are now on their way to Governor Ron DeSantis, after the task force he created finalized their proposal on Wednesday.
At a roundtable discussion in Orlando, the governor said he supports limited visitation – an indication he will move forward with the plan.
“My view on all of this, since the beginning, is you got to do things to keep people safe – particularly our most vulnerable in those facilities,” DeSantis said. “But, just like anything else, you got to find a way to get stuff done, and this visitation is long overdue at this point. We’ve got to get it done.”
For many families, this move signals a long-awaited light at the end of the tunnel after being banned from visiting since March.
Task force member Mary Daniel, who made national headlines when she took a dishwashing job at her husband’s assisted living facility earlier this summer, expects it to be just a matter of days before a new emergency rule – or an amendment to the original – is put in place.
Can we test our way out of COVID-19?
The Hill
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came under attack again for its new guidelines suggesting that brief exposure to a person with COVID-19 didn't automatically mean that an asymptomatic person needed to be tested.
But Dr. Robert Redfield, CDC director, explained to me in an interview on SiriusXM's "Doctor Radio" that he was all for testing asymptomatic contacts provided that "testing should be actionable from a public health point of view." In other words, the medical personnel necessary to perform the contact tracing are essential to the process.
Last week a patient came to my office and told me that his building superintendent had been working in his apartment for several hours and later tested positive for COVID-19. My patient was asymptomatic, but I sent him for a test as a precaution. It was negative. Dr. Redfield told me that he agreed with having this patient tested, isolated, and all his contacts traced, if positive.
But even with close to 80 million COVID-19 diagnostic tests performed in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, there still is frequently a several-day delay between testing and results, which makes contact tracing very difficult. The gold standard is still the polymerase chain reaction test developed in the 1990s, which looks for the specific genetic material (nucleotide) unique for this coronavirus.
COViD-19 by the numbers | COVID -19 Fatalities
ICUs and hospital beds by the numbers | Current as of 8/14/2020
24.2%% of ICU Beds Available Statewide
43.44%% of Pediatric ICU Beds Available Statewide
26.67%% of Available Hospital Beds Statewide
24.2%% of ICU Beds Available Statewide
43.44%% of Pediatric ICU Beds Available Statewide
26.67%% of Available Hospital Beds Statewide
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