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With fears of a post-holiday surge in COVID-19 cases building on already rising infection rates, concern that the health care system could be overwhelmed is persistent. Although most states are not experiencing shortages of ICU beds, hospital staffing shortages and burnout are cause for concern. Nearly all 50 states have responded to this threat by loosening or suspending licensing restrictions for health care workers, including Florida.
In Florida back in March 2020, Gov. Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 20-52, which declared a state of emergency in Florida and allowed health care workers licensed in other states to provide care to Floridians affected by the crisis. Those licensing exemptions came with the caveat that their services “be rendered to such persons free of charge and … under the auspices of the American Red Cross or the Florida Department of Health.”
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