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Florida cases jump amid statewide order

| SFBW Staff

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had resisted issuing a statewide stay-at-home order, but finally gave in on Wednesday.

The order says all persons in Florida shall limit their movements and personal interactions outside of their home to only those necessary to obtain or provide essential services or conduct essential activities.

Cases in Florida jumped on April 1

Senior citizens and individuals with a significant underlying medical condition (such as chronic lung disease, moderate-to-severe asthma, serious heart conditions, immunocompromised status, cancer, diabetes, severe obesity, renal failure and liver disease) shall stay at home and take all measures to limit the risk of exposure to COVID-19, the order also says.

The Florida Department of Health’s dashboard on Thursday morning reported reported 8,010 cases in the state and 128 deaths.

Miami-Dade County leads the state with 2,202 cases. It is followed by Broward at 1,346 cases and Palm Beach with 630 cases.

Palm Beach County, however, has 22 deaths compared with 17 in Broward and seven in Miami-Dade.

The state has 75,641 tests with 7,764 (10.1 percent) of them being positive.

The governor’s statewide order came just a day after he once again expressing reluctance despite being urged to do so by Democratic legislators, newspaper editorial boards and pandemic experts. On Monday, the governor initially said he wanted a stay-at-home order in South Florida through mid-May, but later said he misspoke and meant mid-April.

Now, the new 30-day statewide order will take effect Thursday night at midnight.

“It makes sense to make this move now,” DeSantis said on Wednesday, adding that he had talked with President Donald Trump. The list of essential services will follow guidelines set by the Department of Homeland Security and be similar to those ordered in Miami-Dade County.

Newsweek noted that Florida had been the only state with more than 5,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus that had not issued a statewide stay-at-home order.

A University of Washington researcher cited by the White House expects COVID-19 deaths in Florida to peak at around 136 deaths per day in the first week of May, SFBW reported on Tuesday. That was predicated on “continued and uninterrupted vigilance by the general public, hospital and health workers, and government agencies.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Drew Limsky joined Lifestyle Media Group in August 2020 as Editor-in-Chief of South Florida Business & Wealth. His first issue of SFBW, October 2020, heralded a reimagined structure, with new content categories and a slew of fresh visual themes. “As sort of a cross between Forbes and Robb Report, with a dash of GQ and Vogue,” Limsky says, “SFBW reflects South Florida’s increasingly sophisticated and dynamic business and cultural landscape.”

Limsky, an avid traveler, swimmer and film buff who holds a law degree and Ph.D. from New York University, likes to say, “I’m a doctor, but I can’t operate—except on your brand.” He wrote his dissertation on the nonfiction work of Joan Didion. Prior to that, Limsky received his B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Emory University and earned his M.A. in literature at American University in connection with a Masters Scholar Award fellowship.

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