MaddowBlog: Florida's Covid infections and hospitalizations are not a media creation; they're painfully real. The question is what Gov. DeSantis intends to do about it.
Orlando SentinelDespite a record number of COVID-19 patients at hospitals across the state and dire warnings from the Florida Hospital Association, Gov. Ron DeSantis dismissed capacity concerns as news media "hysteria" and insisted "our hospitals are open for business." His comments came Tuesday as people hospitalized with the coronavirus in Florida rose to an all-time high of 11,515, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Floridians hospitalized with the coronavirus. Now, it's over 11,000, with the state breaking its own record yesterday for the third consecutive day. As for the GOP governor's boast that Florida's hospitals"are open for business," the Associated Press,"Dr. O'Neil Pyke, chief medical officer at Jackson North Medical Center in Miami, said many Florida hospitals are facing staffing shortages. Hospitals also report putting emergency room patients in beds in hallways, and some are again banning visitors or postponing elective surgeries.
It's also worth dwelling on DeSantis' complaints about media"hysteria" and"fear mongering." At issue is a public-health crisis with quantifiable metrics -- which currently look dreadful. As we
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