With Florida fast becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., local officials are calling for more urgency as hospitals are struggling to deal with the surge of patients
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - A few blocks from the Miami Beach Convention Center, where an emergency field hospital stands ready to treat a potential tidal wave of COVID-19 patients, it’s party-on along the resort city’s famed Ocean Drive.
“It’s a tale of two cities,” said Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber. “Our residents are pretty compliant, but our visitors have been spotty and there are areas of the city where it feels like the only people there are those who don’t think there’s a virus.” But a group of mask-and-bikini-clad vacationers from New York City said that was not enough to discourage them.
The Clevelander, an Ocean Drive hotel best known for its all-day parties spread across multiple levels of bars, pools, and clubs, reopened on June 18 but closed again on Monday, after one of its employees tested positive. “The plan will provide... much needed extra personnel to manage the frequently uncooperative and unruly crowds that are completely ignoring all reopening guidelines,” Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales wrote in a Monday memo to other city officials.
For the past two months, the driveway leading up to the building has been filled with Florida National Guardsmen, and medical officials conducting drive-through COVID-19 testing.
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