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850 Florida healthcare workers urge Gov. Ron DeSantis: Act now
Their letter pleads for a statewide shelter-in-place order, among other directives.
By Jack Evans
Published 1 hour ago
Updated 26 minutes ago
More than 800 Florida healthcare workers have signed an open letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis in which they urge the governor to take stronger action to slow the spread of coronavirus on several fronts, including issuing an immediate statewide shelter-in-place order.
The letter, released Friday, had 859 signatures as of 10:15 a.m.
Among its seven points, it pleads for a shelter-in-place order as the only hope of limiting peak incidence and overall mortality rates, as can be seen empirically from other countries.
A spokeswoman for DeSantis said Friday that she was not aware of the open letter until a Tampa Bay Times reporter told her about it.
The letter also asks DeSantis to direct commercially produced personal protective equipment masks, respirators, gowns, gloves straight to healthcare workers and to ask manufacturers to create those supplies.
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https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/27/850-florida-healthcare-workers-urge-gov-ron-desantis-act-now/
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)I have never been so scared in my whole life about what's coming.
OrlandoDem2
(2,075 posts)Oh how I wish Gwen Graham had won the nomination.
Charlie Crist did see the light and left the GOP. Ill give him that.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Lawton Chiles I can't remember any other Democratic governers.
OrlandoDem2
(2,075 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)gibraltar72
(7,522 posts)could take a while.
lark
(23,241 posts)DeSantis is a stupid rw jerk who only cares about how far his nose is up DT's fat ass and who cares nothing bout the people of his state.
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