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Florida News That Impacts You – August 4th, 2021
Bottom Line: Your daily recap of the some of the biggest news from around the state that impacts you in South Florida.
- With approximately 17,000 new COVID-19 cases reported each of the past three days, according to CDC data, Florida’s weekly trend for daily cases has risen to a new pandemic high of 17,600. That’s approximately two thousand daily cases higher than the previous peak in January. Related...
- Florida’s hospitalizations reached a new high on Tuesday as over 11,500 Floridians are now hospitalized due to COVID-19. 2,400 are in intensive care. Half of all hospitalizations are with those under 55 and 96% are unvaccinated.
- The new eviction moratorium signed by the CDC on Tuesday, extending the moratorium to October 3rd, applies to all of Florida’s counties as all are experiencing “substantial”, levels of COVID-19 spread.
- Two school boards voted to challenge Governor DeSantis’s executive order banning mask mandates in Florida’s schools. The Alachua and Duval County School Districts voted to implement mask mandates for the start of the school year.