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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was joined by philanthropist Adrienne Arsht and other leaders Friday morning to announce a new initiative to combat extreme heat, which has become a growing climate threat.
Arsht opened the press conference by saying “heat isn’t just uncomfortable,” but is dangerous, especially for the elderly, pregnant women and those who work outdoors, and can often even be deadly.
The mayor added that the humidity in South Florida makes the heat even worse than in hot, dry areas.
She said the initiative will fall under the county’s broader Resilient305 initiative and various non-profit organizations will also be assisting in the effort, including the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center and The Miami Foundation.
/ Natasha Wright gives Humberto Crespo his drivers license back after checking him in for his COVID-19 vaccine on April 28, 2021 at PortMiami terminal A.
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The cruise industry has been stalled for most of the pandemic, and many cruise workers have lost their jobs.
Officials at PortMiami made the case, at a vaccination event Wednesday, that vaccines against COVID-19 are vital to its comeback. The quicker we get more people vaccinated, the quicker we ll be able to restart cruising, said PortMiami director Juan Kuryla. Cruising is such an important factor to the Miami-Dade economy.
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Miami Dade College North Campus is a federally supported COVID-19 vaccination site.
Officials are also working on door-to-door vaccinations, shots at workplace sites and media campaigns to boost the rates.
Demand is dropping for COVID-19 vaccines, the reason cited by Broward Health for stopping its first-dose vaccinations after Friday. Jackson Health System will do the same later this month. Still, officials have efforts underway to make sure people still get vaccinated.
Florida residents who need help getting to a COVID-19 vaccination site can receive a roundtrip Uber ride, up to $35 in value, when they sign up via the Miami-Dade vaccine site.
The Florida law gives police broad new powers to impose collective punishment on those engaged in protest. First, it lowers the threshold of a “riot” to include as few as three people engaging in “violent and disorderly conduct.” This could subject anyone at an otherwise peaceful event where such a disturbance occurs to third-degree felony charges, punishable by up to five years in prison and the loss of the right to vote. The bill also creates a new second-degree felony of “aggravated rioting” for any large group action that, among other not-clearly-harmful and vaguely-described impacts, “endangers the safe movement of a vehicle traveling on a public street, highway, or road.” Further, the law creates a new, hazy, misdemeanor charge of “mob intimidation” that requires anyone so charged to be held until their first bail hearing effectively giving cops carte blanche to lock up protesters overnight.