Floridians age 65 and up to be prioritized for vaccine, governor says https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-vaccine-65-and-up/35058129# Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed an executive order that makes it clear people age 65 and older will be the first to be vaccinated in the state. DeSantis said the state will begin administering vaccines to people age 65 and up as soon as Monday. The governor also asked people not run out to hospitals or pharmacies looking for the vaccine just yet. He said the state is working with health departments to coordinate the roll-out. DeSantis said people age 65 and up will get the vaccine first, after front-line health care workers and long-term care facilities. The state has already started administering vaccines to people in long-term care facilities and to health care workers who deal with COVID-19 patients. “We’re going where the risk is greatest,” the governor said of the decision to prioritize people in the age group. DeSantis’s decision on Wednesday bucks a suggestion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to place a priority on people 75 and older and essential workers like teachers and first responders as the next to get vaccinated. ------------------ And lets see how that aligns with what I said: Huh....seems pretty much what I said.
To take a trip down memory lane -- prioritizing older people in Florida was actually one of the things I applauded at the time due the high elderly (65+) population in Florida.
You did actually say this in one post. But there were times you criticized DeSantis for not following the CDC guidance regarding vaccinations - and the only thing he was doing differently was the 65 vs. 75 age bracket - which was highlighted in that article above that you posted with snarky commentary.
As shown below I supported this decision to vaccinate the over 65 first in Florida. However the DeSantis administration did a terrible implementation. Everyone remembers the long lines of elderly waiting overnight in Florida, the inability of the elderly to get appointments, the non-functioning technology plus his focus on vaccinating GOP donors first while ignoring all the minority neighborhoods in Florida. https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/desantis-for-the-win.345108/page-265#post-5281067
Really Ron... for weeks Florida has had over 20% of the COVID cases in the U.S. and you finally reach this conclusion... why didn't you start reporting daily COVID data weeks ago? Even better why did you stop reporting daily COVID data in the first place. DeSantis Finally Admits Florida May Have to Report Daily Local COVID Data https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-d...ida-may-have-to-report-daily-local-covid-data Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finally admitted his state’s current COVID-19 reporting wasn’t serving the public well. At a Thursday press conference in Jacksonville, DeSantis said the state may move back to daily case reporting to offer a more reflective, county-level view of the state’s COVID-19 situation. “It is a huge state, and I think that these waves are not necessarily uniform,” he said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “With these daily cases, those are reported publicly every day to the CDC so people have access to that. But in terms of breaking it down by county, that may not be a bad idea going forward. I know we used to look at that a lot.” Jacksonville has seen some of the state’s worst surges this summer due to the Delta variant, with some hospitals seeing the most patients since the start of the pandemic last year. Florida stopped reporting daily case counts in June as cases dwindled, though it continues to report them to the CDC. The federal agency had to issue a correction this week after erroneously reporting case numbers over the weekend. Read it at Tampa Bay Times
Careful w/that talk. DeFascist is going to send brownshirts, weapons drawn to ask for your silence. it was a scumbag move, those vaccines were for frontline medical workers that had to go without so he could pass them out to his elderly base.
Yet all we get out of Florida is a continuous stream of new peaks... Florida COVID update: 20,656 new cases and 357 deaths — one of the highest death increases https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253451799.html
DeSantis and Abbott -- so much "winning" Florida and Texas account for nearly 40% of new coronavirus hospitalizations https://www.aol.com/florida-texas-account-nearly-40-183033048.html