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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona reiterated the Biden administration's support for local Florida educators after the state's Board of Education order.
"This week, the President asked me to do everything I can to help protect our nation's students and support the local leaders who are fighting for them. Let me reiterate: we stand ready to assist any district facing repercussions for imposing CDC-recommended COVID-19 prevention strategies that will protect the health and safety of students, educators, and staff," Cardona said in a statement Friday afternoon.
"To that end, we've also made clear to district leaders that any financial penalties imposed by the state can be addressed immediately using CARES, CRRSA, or American Rescue Plan funds," he added.
Cardona said that he spoke to the superintendents of Broward and Alachua County schools Friday "to reassure them that the President and his Administration stand with them and with all educators who put student and staff health and education first.Comment
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Bad News Still 49 in Vaccinations
49. Mississippi
Doses distributed to state: 3,214,545
Doses administered: 2,335,398
Percentage of distributed vaccines that have been administered: 72.65Comment
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Of the 1,486 deaths recorded this week, 346 occurred in the past seven days. It can take two weeks or longer for a death to be accounted for, and as the state retroactively adds newly discovered fatalities, the peak of this wave is approaching levels not seen since February, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As infections appear to slow, vaccinations continue to climb. Florida administered 443,953 doses of vaccine this week, including 216,136 first-dose vaccinations. It’s the highest vaccination rate in the Sunshine State since early June.
The largest increase was among children ages 12 to 19, who accounted for 25 percent of the newly vaccinated.
DeSantis’ office did not return a request for comment on the state’s COVID situation.
The governor has been traveling around the state in recent weeks, touting the opening of monoclonal antibody sites to treat coronavirus patients. The treatment can help keep at-risk patients from being hospitalized.
He attended the opening of sites at the Bay County Fairgrounds in Panama City, the Northwest Florida Fairgrounds in Fort Walton Beach and the Old Bonita Springs Library on Friday.
Pediatric hospitals brace for patients
Joseph Perno, chief medical officer and pediatric emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, described the situation at the hospital as “not good and unfortunately getting worse.”
Each week since July, he said, the hospital has set a record for the number of COVID-infected children it’s treating.
And with the more infectious delta strain, it’s not just children with underlying health conditions that are ending up in the hospital, he said in an interview published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“A subset of those need to be hospitalized because they need oxygen support or whatever other supportive treatment and then a subset of those have needed ICU,” he said. “If you talk to many of us pediatricians in the state of Florida, it’s a little bit of doom gloom, and we’re scared.”
With schools now in session, the number of infected children may rise further, Perno said. Without a mask mandate for all schools, the hospital, already close to capacity, is “dreading” a further surge in child infections.
Masks are the simplest protection for children at this point, he said, and workers at his hospital are begging families to use them.
“I’m frustrated because it feels like it’s falling on deaf ears and I feel like the kids are being lost in this political battle,” he said.
Tampa Bay hospitals fill up
More than 600 COVID-positive patients are currently hospitalized in AdventHealth’s 10 hospitals in its West Florida Division, the company said. On Friday, it announced a hold on elective surgeries at five more of its hospitals, including ones in Carrollwood, Dade City and Zephyrhills.
BayCare officials said the number of COVID patients at their Tampa Bay area hospitals is around 1,100.
As of Friday afternoon, about 240 COVID patients were being treated at Tampa General Hospital, up by 20 from last week. Ninety patients were listed in intensive care.
Dr. Jason Wilson, the hospital’s associate medical director of the adult emergency department, said admissions have hovered at that “high” number for a few days, but he was reluctant to conclude that the number of infections is at a plateau.
“I could not have imagined 240 when we were at 125,” he said. “These little blips and sudden increases just seem to happen.
“How long are we going to live at a 240 number hoping it doesn’t jump in a day to 300?”Last edited by bsm2; 08-21-2021, 01:04 PM.Comment
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Phil Valentine, a Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host who had questioned whether it was necessary for all people to get Covid-19 vaccines, died on Saturday, his employer, WWTN Radio, announced on Twitter. Valentine was 61 years old.
His death comes more than a month after the host first announced he had been diagnosed with Covid-19. On his program, Valentine had repeatedly downplayed the importance of getting a vaccine against the virus, saying last December that he believed his personal odds of dying from Covid-19 were "probably way less than one percent."
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621,000 Dead Americans all because of a Failed President Anti Heatlhcare policy
Wear a Mask
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An interesting thing abut the Delta variant. All the local TV news stations start each broadcast with their obligatory Kern County COVID19 daily update report. Today's report showed 418 new positive tests for all variants. Total Delta variant cases so far for the entire year to date was 116. That was up from a total yesterday of 110. So let's see, 116 minus 110 is 6. So only 6 new Delta cases out of 418 positive tests. Do you think that maybe the major alphabet news networks have been lying to the people?Comment
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