NEW: Florida Rep. Donna Shalala says the “virus is out of control” in her state as COVID-19 cases surge. “The lack of leadership in the White House and in our governors’ office, they simply have not hit this with a hammer … they opened too soon.”
"The residents here are terrified, and I'm terrified for the first time in my career because there's a lack of leadership," Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., said Sunday."We simply have not gotten our arms around this."Rep. Donna Shalala speaks during a rally with Venezuelans living in Miami, Feb. 1, 2020.
"The real thing we need to do is we need to close down again," said Shalala."I said four months ago, if we don't do this right, we're going to have to close down again. That's our worst nightmare, and we're going to have to do that in Florida.
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