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Florida shows the right way to lock down for coronavirus — and loosen up - New York Post
May 31, 2020 1 min, 37 secs

Nearly a month later, Jacksonville’s Duval County reports new COVID-19 hospitalizations in the single digits.

So far, fewer Floridians have died of the novel coronavirus than in New York’s nursing homes alone (2,259 compared with 5,800, at least).

Unsurprisingly, DeSantis gave counties leeway in responding to COVID-19.

Miami-Dade County shuttered all its nonessential businesses before New York City did, and it was local leaders who first closed many Florida beaches and cracked down against large gatherings.

When Florida did issue a stay-at-home order (two days after New York), it targeted the state’s 4 million seniors and residents with underlying medical conditions.

By late April, the state was conducting some 12,000 daily COVID-19 tests, with capacity for more, and drive-through facilities alone had conducted more than 100,000 tests by early May.

Florida’s response to COVID-19 focused on nursing homes.

More than a third of the nation’s COVID-19 deaths have occurred among the residents and staff of long-term-care facilities — a share that jumps as high as 80 percent in Minnesota and West Virginia.

Florida counts more than 350,000 people living or working in such facilities, and has one of the highest shares of residents over the age of 65.

At the start of the outbreak, Florida deployed rapid-response teams to these facilities to test, treat and, if necessary, isolate or quarantine residents testing positive for the virus.

The state issued PPE to these facilities and mandated its use.

While New York was moving sick patients into nursing homes, Florida was moving them out.

On March 15, DeSantis prohibited the transfer of COVID-19-positive patients into long-term-care facilities and established COVID-only homes.

Cuomo — celebrated in the media, while DeSantis was pilloried — required that infected patients be admitted into nursing homes, where Cuomo himself had said the virus could spread “like fire through grass.”.

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