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Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., promoted his state’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and suggested that it can function as a model for other parts of the country, as Florida starts to slowly reopen some public locations.
” Undoubtedly, every death is something that we regret and we always want to do better to make sure that our people are safe,” said Gaetz on Fox Country’s ” Deep Dive,” on Monday. “However Florida is the traditional case study in how a light or lighter touch and how state-based control can actually work.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis at first withstood purchasing a statewide stay-at-home order, making Florida the only state with more than 5,000 cases– at the time– without such an order.
DeSantis did impose a lockdown order on April 3, saying, ” It makes good sense to make this relocation now.”
Some in the media and Democrats in the state blasted DeSantis for the hold-up.
Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo said in a statement, “It is stressful that Guv Ron DeSantis waited till the coronavirus had infected numerous Floridians prior to finally issuing a statewide stay-at-home order. I hope this will finally slow the rise in infections which his actions are not far too late.”
As of Monday, Florida’s Department of Health had validated 526 extra cases of coronavirus, bringing the total of known cases to 26,660 with 789 deaths. One prominent design predicts that the peak of deaths and hospitalizations for Florida has actually passed.
” My buddy Guv DeSantis chose not to enter into business of trying to out shutdown the governor next door and the nationwide media did pile on to him,” stated Gaetz, as he noted steps taken in the state.
” We had the ability to have wise monitoring. We’re working now on guard [or suveillance] screening and guaranteeing that when we see symptomatic eruptions that we report those to the Department of Health,” Gaetz continued. “And after that we have actually had the most advanced contact tracing in the entire nation, as highlighted by Dr. Birx.”
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On CBS’s “Face The Country” on Sunday, White House coronavirus response planner Dr. Deborah Birx praised the Florida Department of Health website.
” I am attempting to really drive Americans to a site that I think is really quite amazing,” she stated. “If you go to the Florida public health website on COVID, they’ve had the ability to show their neighborhoods cases and tests district by district, county by county, zip code by zip code.”
” That’s the sort of understanding and power we need to put into the hands of the American people so that they can see where the infection is, where the cases are and make choices,” she explained.
Furthermore, Gaetz kept in mind that the Florida hospital system has actually not been overwhelmed by the spread of coronavirus, as was anticipated by early models of the pandemic.
” Miami Dade County is the county where we have the most significant challenges,” Gaetz stated, “and even there we have 40 percent capability in our medical facilities. We have actually been able to meet the challenge before us.”
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” We keep being informed by the media and everybody else, ‘Look at the data. Be guided by the science,” stated Fox News and Fox Nation host Steve Hilton. “Well, that’s some really great information there. And I think that actually need to notify us.”
On Friday, April 18, hundreds of Floridians went back to the recently resumed beaches in northern Florida.
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