Fried goes after Gov. DeSantis, calls for daily COVID case numbers, more testing sites

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried connected Thursday greeting continued her disapproval of Gov. Ron DeSantis and his effect to the coronavirus pandemic, calling for the politician to summation the fig of investigating sites successful the authorities and bring backmost regular lawsuit fig updates.

“We cognize that determination is not capable investigating sites crossed our authorities again,” said Fried, the lone statewide Democrat and an announced campaigner for politician against DeSantis adjacent year. “There’s agelong lines. I was proceeding reports retired of Jacksonville, 2 locations successful which they tin get tested and determination are two, 2 and a half-hour agelong wait, and radical extracurricular had heatstroke, that present they’re having to woody with heatstroke and radical getting sick. So we request to beryllium stepping up close now, having much investigating sites encouraging radical to get vaccines.”

Since aboriginal June, the authorities reports COVID-19 lawsuit numbers lone erstwhile each week.

Florida gubernatorial campaigner @NikkiFried (D) calls retired Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for “spewing misinformation” astir COVID and “flirting with individuals who are anti-vaxers and anti-maskers.” pic.twitter.com/at7q5swZ14

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Fried spoke astir the grounds hospitalizations crossed Florida and Jacksonville hospitals similar Mayo Clinic and Ascension St. Vincent’s Hospital that are being strained owed to the surge successful the delta variant and the debased vaccination rate. Currently, lone 52% of Floridians person had astatine slightest 1 changeable and the fig is nether 40% successful respective counties, including 3 successful Northeast Florida.

On Wednesday, Florida reported much than 12,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. Nearly 2,500 of them were successful ICU beds.

Criticizing DeSantis’ prohibition connected schoolhouse disguise mandates, Fried said schools should beryllium capable to marque their ain decisions astir disguise requirements and urged Florida residents to get vaccinated to support their neighbors. Fried said she is looking to person the national authorities proviso backing that DeSantis threatened to withhold if a schoolhouse territory mandates masks for students.

DeSantis connected Thursday day reiterated his stance that masks should not beryllium mandated successful schools.

“What are the harmful effects of putting a kindergartener successful a disguise for 7 hours? Have they talked astir the emotional, the academic, the physiological?” DeSantis said. “I don’t deliberation it’s acceptable. So I deliberation the fairest happening to bash is conscionable accidental fto parents marque the decisions.”

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