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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by Naja Girard… “We have to figure out a different way,” Commissioner Sylvia Murphy said before the vote. “Something that
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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 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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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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On April 7th County Commissioner Heather Carruthers held another Facebook Live Q&A session. She addressed important questions about screening incoming passengers at Florida Keys airports, tougher measures for businsess that are still operating as essential, Covid-19 testing, and much more…
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Both the City of Key West and Monroe County officials enacted heightened protective measures for open businesses this week in an effort to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
Anyone going out to pick-up essential items must now wear a nose and mouth covering before being allowed to enter any business.
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