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Florida News That Impacts You – September 22nd, 2021
Bottom Line: Your daily recap of the some of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.
- With fall officially starting today, Florida’s left the summer surge of COVID-19 cases behind as well. New COVID-19 cases statewide totaled 6,904 on Tuesday, an improvement of about 4,500 cases over the prior week dropping Florida’s weekly trend for cases to the lowest level in exactly two months – July 21st. Related...
- COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped by 358 patients, leaving 8,130 patients hospitalized with the virus – the lowest total since July 23rd.
- Governor DeSantis announced the state’s new surgeon general will be Joseph Ladapo. Dr. Ladapo most recently has worked as a UCLA researcher and had this to say in Tuesday’s press conference: Florida will completely reject fear as a way of making policies in public health. Fear (has been) unfortunately a centerpiece of health policy in the United States ever since the beginning of the pandemic and it’s over here. Expiration date: it’s done. Ladapo rejects lockdowns and mandates for vaccines and masks as a matter of public policy.
- DeSantis also announced new data aggregated by the Florida Department of Health and Florida Hospital Association showing Monoclonal Antibody treatments have reduced hospitalizations by 70% since the statewide rollout. Florida’s led the country in the treatments as they became a priority of the governor during the state’s summer surge of cases. The Biden administration recently announced they’d no longer allow the state to directly contract with Regeneron for the treatments, reducing the number of treatments available to the state by approximately half.