Monroe County Mayor Heather Carruthers conducted another Facebook Live COVID-19 Q&A today. She address many resident concerns and spoke specifically about when and how the County will make decisions on “opening up” the Keys. You can watch the full video above. We have also transcribed a good portion of what was said for you below:
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by Naja Girard… “We have to figure out a different way,” Commissioner Sylvia Murphy said before the vote. “Something that
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Bob Eadie, Administrator of the Monroe County Department of Health, told the Board of County Commissioners today that it was
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We hear it every day. “Social distancing is working. We’re flattening the curve!”
We’ve been keeping a spreadsheet with all the Monroe County coronavirus case and testing data that the Florida Department of Health provides each day. It’s now been 26 days since the first COVID-19 case was officially reported in the Keys (on March 20th). We were curious to see what those numbers would look like when we plugged them into graphs. What does “our curve” look like? Is it indeed flattening as a result of all our efforts at social distancing?
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The April 21st Key West City Commission meeting will be conducted virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis.
Here’s how you can participate in the meeting which begins at 5 p.m.:
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The good news is three of the seven Florida Keys residents who have been hospitalized at some point during their illness have recovered.
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If you are interested in viewing/listening/participating in the Wednesday April 15th Board of County Commissioners meeting here’s how:
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Guest Editorial by John Donnelly, After the dust settles, it will be found the analytical reasoning and stringent evidence gathering
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At about 3:45 this afternoon County employees got the bad news. A half-hour later local news media was querying County
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Starting at midnight on Wednesday April 8th (and until further notice) all passengers flying into the Keys will be screened
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