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Florida's strategy to protect seniors from COVID-19

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Tags: usa.fl, care homes, senior citizens, coronaviruses.covid19, health.public, politics, government.local, policy.health, governors, ron desantis, author.rich lowry, source.nationalreview, paywall
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-crisis-ron-desantis-florida-covid-19-strategy/

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Title
Where Does Ron DeSantis Go to Get His Apology? | National Review
Authors
Rich Lowry, Andrew C. McCarthy, Jim Geraghty, John McCormack, Zachary Evans, The Editors, Kevin D. Williamson, Victor Davis Hanson
Published
May 20 2020
Word count
2630 words

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    skybrian
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    This is a conservative (but not pro-Trump) publication and it would make sense that the governor is putting his spin on things. But it's striking how little the coverage of Florida I've read...

    This is a conservative (but not pro-Trump) publication and it would make sense that the governor is putting his spin on things. But it's striking how little the coverage of Florida I've read talked about what they were trying to do. Or did I miss it?

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    1. [5]
      MonkeyPants
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      I'm sorry. It's hard to take a partisan article putting a partisan spin on COVID seriously.

      I'm sorry. It's hard to take a partisan article putting a partisan spin on COVID seriously.

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      1. [4]
        skybrian
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        It raises some interesting questions. Perhaps answers can be found somewhere else?

        It raises some interesting questions. Perhaps answers can be found somewhere else?

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        1. [3]
          MonkeyPants
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          Japan has a similar story. From near disaster to success story: how Japan has tackled coronavirus It's interesting that Japan also refers to a cluster methodology Although I think Japan took...

          Japan has a similar story.

          From near disaster to success story: how Japan has tackled coronavirus

          It's interesting that Japan also refers to a cluster methodology

          Although I think Japan took masks, and isolation way more seriously than Florida

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            skybrian
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            I don't understand Japan either.

            I don't understand Japan either.

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            1. MonkeyPants
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              Japan, Hong Kong, they all wear masks in addition to cluster analysis. Florida has a clear history of fudging the numbers. Looking at data from the NY Times, it looks like Florida's cases went...

              Japan, Hong Kong, they all wear masks in addition to cluster analysis.

              Florida has a clear history of fudging the numbers. Looking at data from the NY Times, it looks like Florida's cases went down during the lockdown and Several FL Counties showing a clear increase in COVID daily case growth rates since 5/4 reopening

              I think America will likely learn the hard way, with some states mandating masks and others turning masks into a culture war.

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  2. skybrian
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    From the article: [...]

    From the article:

    An irony of the national coverage of the coronavirus crisis is that at the same time DeSantis was being made into a villain, New York governor Andrew Cuomo was being elevated as a hero, even though the DeSantis approach to nursing homes was obviously superior to that of Cuomo. Florida went out of its way to get COVID-19-positive people out of nursing homes, while New York went out of its way to get them in, a policy now widely acknowledged to have been a debacle.

    The media didn’t exactly have their eyes on the ball. “The day that the media had their first big freakout about Florida was March 15th,” DeSantis recalls, “which was, there were people on Clearwater Beach, and it was this big deal. That same day is when we signed the executive order to, one, ban visitation in the nursing homes, and two, ban the reintroduction of a COVID-positive patient back into a nursing home.”

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    Florida, DeSantis notes, “required all staff and any worker that entered to be screened for COVID illness, temperature checks. Anybody that’s symptomatic would just simply not be allowed to go in.” And it required staff to wear PPE. “We put our money where our mouth is,” he continues. “We recognized that a lot of these facilities were just not prepared to deal with something like this. So we ended up sending a total of 10 million masks just to our long-term-care facilities, a million gloves, half a million face shields.”

    Florida fortified the hospitals with PPE, too, but DeSantis realized that it wouldn’t do the hospitals any good if infection in the nursing homes ran out of control : “If I can send PPE to the nursing homes, and they can prevent an outbreak there, that’s going to do more to lower the burden on hospitals than me just sending them another 500,000 N95 masks.”