So the Delta Covid wave has passed and cases are decreasing in all but 7 states in the country (mostly red like Alaska). You think Florida is somehow special because the Covid cases finally declined after inflicting oversized death & misery on the state due to poor public health policy.
This school is run by a GOP donor and DeSantis supporter.... let's see what they are doing? Yep, all aligned with DeSantis' agenda of undermining public health and not supporting Covid vaccinations. A Florida school says students who get vaxxed must stay home for 30 days because of unfounded claim that they'll infect others https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-school-says-vaxxed-kids-quarantine-30-days-each-dose-2021-10 Centner Academy in Florida told parents any student who gets vaccinated must quarantine for 30 days. That's because of a belief that vaccinated students can infect unvaccinated students, WSVN reported. An infectious-disease expert who spoke with WSVN characterized that belief as "science fiction." A private school in Miami is requiring students who get vaccinated to quarantine at home for 30 days after each dose. "Because of the potential impact on other students and our school community, vaccinated students will need to stay at home for 30 days post-vaccination for each dose and booster they receive and may return to school after 30 days as long as the student is healthy and symptom-free," a letter sent to parents of students at the Centner Academy said, the local news outlet WSVN reported. The letter also urged parents to "hold off" on getting their children vaccinated until the summer "when there will be time for the potential transmission or shedding onto others to decrease." School officials told Insider that the "policy was enacted as a prudent precautionary measure after much thoughtful deliberation." One infectious-disease expert who spoke with WSVN characterized that belief as "science fiction." "What happens 30 days after they get vaccinated? What kind of nonsense is this?" Dr. Aileen Marty from Florida International University said. "Where did they get that? There's nothing in the recommendations to that." She added, "They made that up. That's science fiction, not even science fiction because it's pure fiction." None of the approved COVID-19 vaccines in the US "contain the live virus that causes COVID-19," a myth-busting page published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. "This means that a COVID-19 vaccine cannot make you sick with COVID-19." Additionally, early research has suggested that fully vaccinated people were less infectious than those who were unvaccinated. Health officials such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's topmost coronavirus expert, said vaccinated people who contracted the coronavirus were far less likely to spread it than unvaccinated people. Data has also suggested that there's a hierarchy to the three approved vaccines in the United States, with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being less effective against variants. Still, being vaccinated even with a Johnson & Johnson dose is better than not being vaccinated at all, health experts said. Vaccines might cause symptoms such as fevers, the CDC said, but that's normal and a sign "that the body is building protection against the virus." An Insider analysis of more than a dozen studies found that Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca were highly effective at preventing severe COVID-19 symptoms. Health officials are urging parents to vaccinate their kids against the coronavirus as soon as possible. "Schools can promote vaccinations among teachers, staff, families, and eligible students by providing information about COVID-19 vaccination, encouraging vaccine trust and confidence, and establishing supportive policies and practices that make getting vaccinated as easy and convenient as possible," a CDC info page about vaccinating kids said. The coronavirus and its variants have been spreading quickly across schools, infecting and sometimes killing students and teachers. An unvaccinated teacher in Californiai nfected 26 people with the coronavirus after removing their mask to read to the class. A Mississippi eighth-grader died of COVID-19 just a week into school in August. Two teachers in Texas died from COVID-19 just days apart, forcing the school district to temporarily close. Centner Academy defended the letter sent to parents in a statement to Insider. In a statement to WSVN, officials said: "Centner Academy's top priorities are our students' well-being and their sense of safety within our educational environment. We will continue to act in accordance with these priorities. The email that was sent to families today was grounded in these priorities."
Let's remind people about the actual facts and sad truth about Florida in recent months. Florida had nation’s worst COVID-19 death rate during summer surge https://floridapolitics.com/archive...orst-covid-19-death-rate-during-summer-surge/ The delta variant-driven summer surge of 2021 was deadlier in Florida than in any other state. The latest federal COVID-19 reports covering the period since June 20 — which roughly coincided with the time the summer surge began — shows that more people have since been reported to have died of the disease in Florida than in any other state. Florida’s per-capita rate of reported COVID-19 deaths also has been higher than any other state in the period, which covers though Oct. 6. Florida’s COVID-19 summer surge appears to be largely over, as the number of new confirmed cases has been plummeting for more than a month, and the number of deaths have been falling for a couple of weeks. The same is mostly true nationally, though some states are seeing increases in their COVID-19 numbers. Most epidemiologists expect that cold states will see their surges peak during colder weather. For now, as case and death numbers fall back toward where they were in June, before the summer surge began, the mortality toll of the disease’s summer outbreak in Florida is coming into clear focus. More people were reported to have died in Florida since June 20 than in any other state — more than Texas, California, or Arizona. Even when Florida’s large population is factored in, Florida’s per-capita death rate was worse than all other states’, including smaller southern states that suffered harsh summer surges, such as Louisiana and Arkansas. Florida Politics examined the Community Profile Reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were released on June 21, which reported cumulative death data through June 20; and Thursday, which covered data through Wednesday. Since June 20, 18,040 Floridians were reported to have died of COVID-19, according to the data. In the same period, the second highest death toll was found in Texas, 14,032. California had the nation’s third highest COVID-19 death toll during that period, with 6,338 reported deaths; followed by Georgia, 5,307; and North Carolina, 3,472. Since June 20, 84 out of every 100,000 Floridians were reported to have died of COVID-19, according to the CDC data. That rate, adjusting for Florida’s large population, is the worst in the nation. The second highest per-capita rate was in Mississippi, where 81 deaths were reported per 100,000 people since June 20. The next highest per-capita death rates were Louisiana, 73; Alabama, 67; and Arkansas, 63. Florida Politics also examined reported COVID-19 deaths by county. Miami-Dade County suffered more reported deaths than any other county in the nation this summer, with 2,032 recorded since June 20. Harris County, Texas, home to Houston, had the second-most reported COVID-19 deaths during the period, with 1,908, followed by Los Angeles County, California, with 1,741. Fourth worst nationally was Broward County, with 1,443 reported COVID-19 deaths during the period. The CDC data covers more than 3,200 American counties and parishes. Also among the 20 worst counties in the nation for summer COVID-19 deaths were Duval County, with 1,151 deaths reported; Palm Beach County, 1,050; Hillsborough County, 929; Polk County, 884; Pinellas County, 845; Brevard County, 738; Orange County, 692; Lee County, 684; and Marion County, 663. On a per-capita basis, nearly all the worst counties in America were rural, low-population counties where a few tragic deaths disproportionately drove up mortality rates. Among America’s 604 counties and parishes with at least 100,000 residents, the six counties with the worst death rates all were in Florida. Marion County, with a population of 365,579, saw 663 COVID-19 deaths reported since June 20, for a rate of 181 deaths per 100,000 residents during that period. That was the worst in the nation for any county with at least 100,000 residents. Citrus County reported COVID-19 deaths at the nation’s second highest rate for counties of at least 100,000, with a rate of 180 deaths per 100,000 residents. Hernando County was next at 173; followed by Bay County, 148; Clay County, 140; and Highlands County, 139. Indian River County, Lake County, Brevard, Polk, Duval, Sumter County, and Pasco counties also had death rates among the 20 worst in the nation among counties with at least 100,000 people.
So you pick Florida for a summer surge (which is when Florida gets hit but most other states don't) and then claim it was the worst in the summer? Even with the extra wave (that is coming to the north this winter), Florida still has 8 states worse than it for deaths per capita. Someone actually pays you to work a full time job, right? \
Let's do a fact check on this nonsense... Politifact: Media reported for weeks on drop in Florida COVID-19 cases, which followed surge https://www.winknews.com/2021/10/18...-florida-covid-19-cases-which-followed-surge/ IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT News media have reported for weeks on the recent decline in COVID-19 cases in Florida. Florida does have measures that restrict mask mandates in schools and limit requirements to show proof of vaccination. But the decline in cases occurred only after Florida led the nation, and Florida still ranks among states with the highest case rate. See the sources for this fact-check. Conservative podcast host Joey Saladino took a shot at the media while touting a decrease in COVID-19 infections in Florida. “The Media is pretty quiet about Florida’s Decline in COVID cases. No Mask Mandates or Vaccine Mandates,” Saladino wrote on Instagram, where he has 148,000 followers. The Oct. 10 post included a chart, with data attributed to the New York Times, indicating that the rate of daily cases of COVID-19 in Florida had dropped sharply starting in late-August 2021. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about Politifact’s partnership with Facebook.) The news media have reported for weeks on the drop in cases — which occurred only after a period in which Florida led the nation in new cases. Moreover, while it does have measures restricting mask and proof of vaccination mandates, it still ranks among the states with the highest case rates. Restricts mask mandates, vaccination proof Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has signed COVID-19 measures to prohibit requirements to prove vaccination in certain places and to ban mask mandates in schools. In May, DeSantis signed a bill that prohibits requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination to gain entrance to, or services from businesses, governmental bodies and educational institutions. Violators are subject to a $5,000 fine per violation. On Oct. 12, the state fined Leon County, home to the capital, $3.5 million for requiring its employees to get COVID-19 vaccines and for firing 14 workers who failed to get the shots. In July, DeSantis issued an executive order to ban mask mandates in schools. So far, it has prevailed in court challenges. The order states that schools cannot mandate that their students wear masks and that the state can deny funding to districts that don’t comply. On Oct. 7, the state Board of Education voted to sanction eight school districts, exposing them to potential funding cuts, because the districts allow parents to decide whether the students wear masks. COVID-19 cases declining from highs COVID-19 cases in Florida are decreasing — but from staggering heights. In late July, we rated Pants on Fire a claim that reports of Florida’s cases being up were “a blatant lie.” Florida accounted for more than one-fifth of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. at the time and recorded more COVID-19 deaths than any other state. The seven day-average positivity rate for testing rose from 0.83% on June 11 to 24.3% on July 25. In each of the past six weeks, counts of new cases have declined sharply, according to the latest figures from the Florida Health Department. There were 151,789 new cases during the week starting Aug. 20 and 25,792 during the week starting Oct. 1. But Florida still ranks high in the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases per 1 million population, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. As of Oct. 14, North Dakota was first, at 183,176; Florida was fifth, at 167,728; the U.S. average was 135,767. Media coverage of the decline Google searches found that the decline has produced headlines like these for weeks, though primarily in Florida media: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, “COVID in Florida: 3974 new cases as steep drop continues,” Oct. 6 WPLG-TV in South Florida, “Florida COVID cases dip to lowest since early July,” Sept. 28, 2021 Palm Beach Post, “COVID cases across Florida drop by 40% since last week; pandemic fatalities also down,” Sept. 24, 2021 Fox 13 TV in Tampa Bay, “‘Work to be done’ as Florida’s COVID-19 numbers continue decline from summertime peak,” Sept. 20, 2021 Tampa Bay Times, “Florida schools shift pandemic protocols as new cases decrease,” Sept. 20, 2021 The Associated Press news service, “New daily virus cases in Florida is lowest since July,” Sept. 18, 2021 Fortune magazine, “Florida sees new COVID cases drop by 47% in the past two weeks,” Sept. 16, 2021 Action News TV in Jacksonville, “Florida’s COVID cases drop again,” Sept. 13, 2021 CBS 12 TV in West Palm Beach, “New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations drop in Florida,” Sept. 7, 2021 Politifact ruling An Instagram post stated: “The media is pretty quiet about Florida’s decline in COVID cases. No mask mandates or vaccine mandates.” News media have reported for weeks on the recent decline in COVID-19 cases in Florida. Florida does have measures that restrict mask mandates in schools and limit requirements to show proof of vaccination. But the decline in cases occurred only after Florida led the nation, and Florida still ranks among states with the highest case rate. The statement contains only an element of truth. Politifact rates it Mostly False.