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DeSantis spokesman deletes account after tweeting about coronavirus victims Fred Piccolo’s tweet drew an almost immediate angry response.     Fred Piccolo Jr., 42, spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis, deactivated his Twitter account Wednesday after he tweeted in the middle of night that photos of each dead COVID-19 victim should be balanced with 99 photos of people who survive the disease. [ CARLINE JEAN / SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL | South Florida Sun Sentinel ] By Steven Lemongello and Mario Ariza Orlando Sentinel (TNS) Published Dec. 24, 2020 Updated Dec. 24, 2020 ORLANDO —...

COVID-19: Against expert advice, Florida to vaccinate seniors before workers Federal coronavirus vaccine advisers have recommended giving shots to frontline essential workers before some seniors, but Florida will not, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday. "We are not going to put young healthy workers ahead of our vulnerable elderly population," DeSantis said during a press conference at The Villages Regional Hospital in the large retiree community in Sumter County for people 55 and older. "The vaccines are going to be targeted where the risk is greatest, and that is in our elderly population...

POLITICO Get the Florida Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by CVS Health Good Friday morning. The daily rundown — Between Wednesday and Thursday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 13,148 (1.1 percent), to 1,168,483; active hospitalizations went down by 23 (0.4 percent...

Published December 17. 2020 7:18PM  Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post WASHINGTON — State officials said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine had been drastically cut for next week, sparking widespread confusion and conflicting statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who was to blame. The reduction prompted concern in health departments across the country about whether Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's vaccine accelerator, was capable of distributing doses qu...

States report confusion as feds slash vaccine shipments, and Pfizer says it has ‘millions’ of unclaimed doses Author: Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun, Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Updated: December 18, 2020 Published December 17, 2020 Materials handlers make a quick check of a box of vials of the first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 before putting it in a freezer, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, shortly after it arrived at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, south of Seattle. The hospital plans to start the first...