07-14-2020, 03:10 PM
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ource=url_link
Florida, Haven for NBA and Trump, Sets Covid Death Record
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Unlike earlier in the pandemic, Covid-19 is now also infecting and hospitalizing large numbers of Floridians away from the state’s largest metropolitan area. In Orlando, home of the Walt Disney World complex that’s hosting the NBA, cumulative cases are now about 14 times what they were on May 4, when Florida emerged from its Covid-19 lockdown.
Jacksonville, host of the Republican convention, had just 1,011 confirmed cases on May 4. The convention was officially relocated there June 11, when it had 1,770 cases. As of Tuesday, the number of cases had climbed to 12,548, and the area had 525 Covid-19 patients in hospitals.
Trump in June upended plans to hold the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the governor said the RNC would have to institute social distancing and mandatory face masks. Official business will still be held in Charlotte, but the nomination will be moved to Jacksonville Aug. 24-27.
Republican leaders have been hedging about whether they will attend. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Thursday the convention was “a challenging situation.”
“We’ll have to wait and see how things look in late August and determine whether or not you can safely convene that many people,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky.
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You know you’re in hell when Mitch ain’t ****in with you
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