MIAMI -- At the Florida community of The Villages, the retirement capital of America and the place with the nation's highest concentration of older people, only 33 people have been tested for the coronavirus.In the Florida Keys, swamped with young spring breakers and travelers from around the world
MIAMI — At the Florida community of The Villages, the retirement capital of America and the place with the nation’s highest concentration of older people, only 33 people have been tested for the coronavirus.
While testing is falling well short of demand across the country, public health officials say the unique risk in Florida, where 27% of the population is over the age of 60, and eight people have already died, creates a serious need for better testing. Story continuesA nonprofit health center that opened a drive-through testing site in Palm Beach County was so overwhelmed that it had to stop taking new appointments. Memorial Healthcare System in Broward County said it could drastically increase the 100 tests it conducted daily if it had the proper materials, but its vendor is only supplying certain facilities.
His three centers, spread over 100 miles from Key Largo to Key West, serve some 3,000 people a month — about 20% of them tourists. The centers were initially allocated a total of 15 tests and just got another 10. When the governor made his announcement, spring break was in full swing in Key West, where people filled the busy tourist drag, Duval Street, wearing green St. Patrick’s Day shirts, beers in hand.
“I am very, very angry about how things are being handled,” said Alexa Lane, 45, whose husband and two children were exposed at their synagogue in Palm Beach County but have not been able to get tested. “I feel like it’s not being taken seriously enough. If we don’t have the tests, we don’t have the numbers; we don’t have the correct precautions in place.”
The state has asked the federal government for supplies, including 2 million masks, 50,000 small bottles of hand sanitizer and 5,000 ventilators. And Moskowitz has asked if Navy hospital ships might dock at the state’s ports.Unlike a hurricane, the coronavirus affects every county.
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