The governor of Florida (United States), Ron DeSantis, was rebuked this Monday by a man who accused him of doing nothing to stop the COVID-19 pandemic. The claim was made during a press conference in which the president announced the dispatch of an additional 3,000 toilets to medical centers in the southern state.
“You are a disgrace. We are having record cases every day and you are doing nothing. You are falsifying information and confusing the public. More than 4,000 people have died and are blaming protesters. They have no plan and they are not doing anythinga “he rebuked Thomas Kennedy, who soon after published a video of the moment in Twitter. According to his account on this social network, he is the organizer in Florida of United We Dream, “the largest youth-led immigrant network in the country,” with more than 400,000 members, according to his website.
DeSantis started his press conference a day after Florida beat press conference, which took place in hospital Jackson Memorial, of Miami, the Governor announced the dispatch of 3,000 additional toilets for hospital and elderly care centers. He also announced the start-up of 14 isolation centers for those infected, specifically for people who need to be isolated and cannot do so due to their living conditions.
Pandemic Strikes Florida
The governor acknowledged that Floridians are not getting the test results fast enough. “The test of coronavirus It is taking 7 days to give the results and meanwhile the asymptomatic people who had the test are not isolated, and this causes contagions. Our challenge is to control the asymptomatic, “said the governor.
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Before the crisis that lives FloridaThe state does not plan to reorder the order to stay home, as happened in March. “We are working with the White House to get more resources for South Florida hospitals,” said the governor. “This is the principle of aid; we must bear in mind that in South Florida they are doing many more tests. We do more tests in a single day than anywhere else,” he added.
Along with DeSantis were the mayor of Miami-Dade, Carlos Giménez, and Carlos Migoya, president of the Jackson Public Health System, which has several hospitals in Miami. Migoya noted that the spread was originally fueled by young Floridians, but now the outbreak is reaching the most vulnerable older residents. “Younger people have been polluting older peopleyes, “he said.
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