Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez took a tour Tuesday of the “field hospital” facility built on the grounds of the Dade County Youth Fair with 250 cots, not beds, and giant, trailer-like port-a-potties with showers in them for when a patient has to go. This hospital is reportedly to be used for non COVID19 patients. But […]
Monday was Day 15 of the “stay-at-home” order to stop the the community spread of COVID19 in Miami-Dade, which now has a reported 1,701 positive cases, according to the Florida Department of Health. But for all the “shelter-in-place” orders and curfews — a new one starts in Hialeah — and “safer at home” rhetoric, there sure […]
This is extremely concerning during an existential pandemic threat: Ladra did not get neither the text message nor the robocall that apparently went out from Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez Friday urging people to “remain in their homes except for essential activities.” I signed up on the county website to get COVID19 alerts. Has Ladra been scrubbed […]
The second day of the second week of the Miami-Dade COVID19 crisis and the number of positives in the county keeps rising, reaching 367 on Tuesday evening, which is almost 100 more than the 278 confirmed infected the night before. But experts and leaders say that trajectory is only so sharp because of an increase in […]
The shit is getting real. The threat of coronavirus and community spread of COVID19 is getting more dire every day as 58 more people in Miami-Dade tested positive by Sunday night for a total of 227 — and 50 of those cases were reported between the Florida Health Department’s morning and its evening briefing. At least 37 […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez had to walk back his fourth executive order to curb the coronavirus community spread on Saturday, reversing gears from Thursday, when he closed pawn shops as one of the non-essential businesses. Pawn shops was in the middle of a long list of businesses that were ordered closed in a press release and in […]
Updated: And from the better late than never category: The Seminole Tribe of Florida finally closed its casinos to help curb the community spread of COVID-19, Miami Beach hotels are shutting down and Miami-Dade transit finally cut bus and Metrorail service on Friday — Day 5 of the all voluntary #StayHome movement — but only after […]
Updated: Another day of the coronavirus outbreak, another day of more closings. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered the closures of all non-essential retail stores, malls and casinos Wednesday, adding them to the list of businesses that are not allowed to open their doors to more than eight people at a time. And it was announced late […]
Updated: Less than 24 hours after the city of Miami shut down all restaurants, clubs, bars, gyms and other locations where people congregate and could, possibly, transmit the coronavirus COVID-19 disease, Miami-Dade County followed with the same kind of emergency order, closing all those establishments and allowing kitchens to stay open for curbside or drive-through take-out […]
Many, if not all, government meetings will be postponed or cancelled for the next week or two and there will be a countywide 11 p.m. curfew on bars and restaurants to try to stop community spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Miami-Dade, Miami, Coral Gables and Bay Harbor Islands, as well as other cities, were […]