While rural Florida has not struggled with coronavirus, if cases escalate, these areas could be hard-pressed to handle an outbreak because of a lack of doctors and hospitals, said Jerne Shapiro, a lecturer at the University of Florida.
JUPITER, Fla. ― Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has refused to issue a statewide “stay-at-home” order to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus because the disease has not hit many areas of the state, he said.
Yet many rural counties have tested fewer than 75 patients in the past two weeks, according to health department data.Public health experts and emergency management officials disagree on whether a statewide stay-at-home order would make a difference in these rural counties. “The cows still have to be milked twice a day or they are not going to be able to produce any milk,” he said.
“We probably do have a case in the county, but it hasn’t presented itself yet,” he said. “We are not going to be spared from this.”Florida has more than 6,700 cases of COVID-19 and has done about 65,000 tests — far fewer than the tallies in New York and other states. As of Tuesday night, at least 85 people had died and 850 had been hospitalized because of COVID-19 in Florida.
“Until we do more widespread community testing, we won’t really know who has been exposed,” Levine said. From her standpoint, she said, the governor should set restrictions across the state. “From a public health standpoint, there is no question that the earlier you do it the better.”
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