Ocala, FL - One of the south's most prominent grocery store chains is teaming up with the state to open up additional COVID-19 vaccination sites around Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis announced the partnership between Publix, the Florida Depart.
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks in Pensacola. (The Florida Channel)
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference regarding the state’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine Wednesday morning in Pensacola, at which time he announced more vaccination sites up north and said that the state will distribute more vaccines next week to hospitals that are “blowing through” them.
According to the governor, the Florida Department of Emergency Management is monitoring the progress being made at each hospital and vaccination location in the state and will make sure that vaccines are going to places that are using them in the short term.
Pensacola News Journal
As 2020 comes to a close, Santa Rosa and Escambia counties say they ve spent or made plans to spend all of the $89 million they collectively received from the CARES Act that was issued to local governments to help individuals and businesses recover from coronavirus-related economic woes.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2 trillion stimulus rescue package passed in late March to aid individuals, business and communities throughout the U.S. affected by the economic impacts of COVID-19. In Florida, counties with fewer than 500,000 residents are slated to receive CARES funding.
. EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (Tribune News Service) Eglin Air Force Base began vaccinating front-line health care workers against COVID-19 at the base hospital on Wednesday after the installation s first vaccine shipment arrived. But even as the base took that next step to address the worldwide coronavirus pandemic within its own gates, Col. Matthew Hanson, commander of the 96th Medical Group, stressed that personnel still will be required to wear face coverings and observe social distancing. Both practices are public health protocols aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19. Our health protection measures here on this base will continue throughout the pandemic, Hanson said in a report posted Wednesday on Eglin s Facebook page. That won t change. . We know that the pandemic will end, but between now and then, we need to double down on health protection measures. Mask wear, hand washing, social distancing all of that will be critical until the last day of this fight.
Florida COVID-19 whistleblower sues law enforcement over raid
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Dec. 21 (UPI) The former Florida Department of Health data scientist who was fired from running the state s COVID-19 data dashboard sued the Florida Department of Law Enforcement over a raid on her home earlier this month.
Rebekah Jones filed the 19-page lawsuit in Leon County civil court stating that the FDLE violated her constitutional rights by serving the search warrant on Dec. 7, which the suit states sought to silence her online speech and gain the favor of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Advertisement The basis of this warrant was a sham to punish the plaintiff for her protected speech, the suit states.