Come to Florida: it's really a great place to die!

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Body Bags And Morgue Trucks
August 31, 2021
... 231 Florida hospitals that report data to the federal government logged 280 COVID-19 deaths on Monday ... 15,682 hospital beds are currently being used for COVID-19 patients in Florida hospitals. On Monday, 1,766 adults were newly admitted to Florida hospitals for COVID-19 care ... There are now 3,426 patients in Florida ICU’s for COVID-19 care. That represents more than half of all people in a Florida ICU ... Refrigerated trucks continue to be stationed at hospitals across Florida to handle a potential overflow of bodies. At least 1,937 people have died in Florida hospitals over the past seven days ...

Devastating Wave of Police Deaths
August 31, 2021
... Three officers in the Tampa Bay area recently lost their lives to the virus — St. Petersburg police officer Michael Weiskopf, 52, Manatee Corrections Department worker Douglas Clark, 67, and Polk County sheriff’s deputy Christopher Broadhead, 32 ... Weiskopf was unvaccinated, but the vaccination status of Clark and Broadhead is unknown. "Mike could probably be here today if he was vaccinated," St. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway told FOX 13. "Wife and I talked about that. But he didn't. All politics aside, get vaccinated. The wife now has to go through this. The police department has to go through this" ...

Public records lawsuit targets Florida Dept. of Health
Published August 31, 2021 at 11:54 AM EDT
... The state until early June posted on its website daily reports that provided extensive data about issues such as cases and deaths, with information also broken down by county. But Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration halted the daily reports in June and shifted to posting weekly information that is far less detailed. The lawsuit alleges that the Department of Health and Surgeon General Scott Rivkees, the department’s secretary, have violated public-records laws at a time when the delta variant of the coronavirus has caused cases, hospitalizations and deaths to surge in Florida. “Due to the highly contagious nature of COVID-19 and its ‘continuing threat’ to Floridians, records revealing information about its impact, prevalence and fatality is of obvious public importance,” the lawsuit said ...

Florida university leaders say they cannot mandate masks
Ryan Dailey, NSF on Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:55 am
... The state university system’s Board of Governors, which will hold meetings Tuesday and Wednesday at Florida International University, is not slated to discuss campus COVID-19 measures. A spokeswoman for the board confirmed Monday to the News Service of Florida that “there is nothing on the agenda related to that topic” ... McCullough, who took over as Florida State’s president this month, said Friday that the system’s Board of Governors has the final say on what can be mandated for universities. “I could mandate it, and as soon as I mandated it, the next day it would be unmandated. So, I work for the state of Florida in some sense,” McCullough said ...

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