'The negative effects' of shutting down again would be much worse than 'any gains you're getting,' Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Under fire from critics who say he is letting Florida’s coronavirus outbreak get out of control, Gov. Ron DeSantis is playing down the state’s increase in new cases in recent weeks, attributing it to more testing among low-risk individuals and saying he won’t roll back reopening efforts.
“You have to have society function, you have to be able to have a cohesive society, that’s the best way to be able to deal with the impacts of the virus,” DeSantis said. “But particularly when you have a virus that disproportionately impacts one segment of society, to suppress a lot of working-age people at this point I don’t think would likely be very effective.”
“Today’s record-high new cases makes it clear: Governor DeSantis has lost control of Florida’s COVID-19 response,” Fried said. “His policies are simply not working, and he’s recklessly reopening Florida despite the data screaming for caution.”But DeSantis noted that many of the new cases are younger people who are less at risk of becoming seriously ill.
The governor also noted that the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital intensive care unit beds and on ventilators has gone down significantly over the last 60 days. He said there are 6,400 ventilators “sitting idle.” Another 55 deaths reported Tuesday brought the number of fatalities from COVID-19 to 2,993, the state Health Department said.
Tuesday’s record level of daily cases followed a series of high daily marks reached at the end of last week through Saturday.
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