Ben Conarck - Miami Herald
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Even before legislative proposals to reform condo safety post-Surfside died on the doorstep of the Florida House last month, a reaction was brewing in the marketplace.
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South Florida’s largest not-for-profit hospital system, Baptist Health of South Florida, offered COVID-19 vaccines to top donors during a time when seniors couldn't secure appointments.
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Even with relatively scant monitoring for evolved strains of the virus, known as “variants,” federal officials say Florida now leads the country in known cases of the so-called “U.K. variant,” or B.1.1.7, with 46, according to new data released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Jackson Health System in Miami-Dade County and Memorial Healthcare System in southern Broward County are among a handful of providers who are working with the Florida Department of Health to help roll out about a million doses.
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When Gov. Ron DeSantis needed to hire a data analyst, his staff picked a little-known Ohio sports blogger and Uber driver whose only relevant experience is spreading harmful conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on the Internet.
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And, whether Floridians know it or not, he is pursuing a policy that will allow the virus to spread freely in the state until most of the population becomes infected — or is vaccinated with a yet-to-be obtained vaccine — while attempting to protect those thought to be most vulnerable.
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The Florida Department of Health, which continues to register COVID-19 deaths from July, told the Miami Herald on Thursday that it announces deaths as they are reported to the agency, but did not elaborate on why deaths were taking so long to be reported.