Florida seemed likely to be among the states hit hardest by COVID-19. Why hasn’t it been?
with the National Review published Wednesday, the governor said the state’s aggressive stance with regard to nursing homes allowed it to be more lax with the general population.
that nursing homes accept recovering COVID patients in order to free up beds in the hospitals—a decision that has been heavily criticized.Wednesday that the state concealed its knowledge of the looming threat early on, and as new probable cases began piling up, the health department refused to release information about testing even to local hospitals and state senators. If nursing homes were spared some worse fate, it would also have something to do with those facilities’ own decisions.
And that gets at another significant factor. DeSantis has boasted about allowing different restrictions for different counties. “I said from the beginning, we’re a big, diverse state,” he told the National Review. “The epidemic is not going to affect this state uniformly, and what’s appropriate in Miami and Broward may not be appropriate for Jacksonville or the Panhandle.” But many public health experts agree that prompt action in the earliest days of the pandemic in the U.S.
Miami-Dade has had the largest outbreak in Florida. But in the five days preceding the county’s March 26 stay-at-home order, more than half the phones tracked by one of the firms never traveled more than a mile. That represented a drop of more than 80 percent … from mid-February to early March. Residents of the biggest counties were quickest to put social distancing guidelines in place. But the trend was consistent.
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