This morning the Monroe County Emergency Management division hosted the weekly COVID-19 coordinating meeting attended by government officials countywide. Below
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County Mayor Heather Carruthers held another Facebook Live COVID-19 Q&A earlier this week, just one days after the Keys began
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Guest Editorial by John Donnelly There’s a steady stream of compelling scientific research and evidence that identifies in detail the
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Not since the Great Depression has food insecurity been so acute in the Florida Keys, and the SOS Foundation, founded
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Monroe County Mayor Heather Carruthers asked county and municipal leaders to recommend community members to volunteer for task forces to
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Key West’s City Manager, Greg Veliz, announced this morning that the city has reopened parks, beaches and recreation facilities to
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This morning Monroe County Emergency Management Director, Shannon Weiner, held her weekly countywide COVID-19 coordinating meeting. Department of Health Administrator,
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by Naja Girard “My son is in jail for violation of probation with the initial charge of a small amount
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This morning we learned a few things during the countywide Covid-19 conference. Representatives from all Florida Keys municipalities, the Department
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Several readers have asked us to plot the numbers for specific areas in the Keys that are seeing the largest number of positive novel coronavirus cases. These areas are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 compared with other areas of the Keys for different reasons. Key West, of course, with its larger population and which had thousands of visitors coming in daily by air, car and boat would be expected to have the largest share of positive cases and does. But the Upper Keys areas of Key Largo and Tavernier have a relatively high percentage of cases compared to other islands.
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