Two Miami-Dade bus drivers and an employee from the radio room have tested positive for coronavirus in recent days, their union leader said, as transit workers — who are also on the front lines — continue to work without protective gear. And the southbound Route 9 bus in Aventura had 60 passengers on board Friday morning. […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis showed Wednesday that he is not a leader, but a follower. And he’s following the wrong people. DeSantis issued a statewide “stay-at-home” order Wednesday, one day after refusing to do so simply because President Donald Trump had a change of heart. He pretty much said so. He also literally took the “essential” […]
A new drive-through COVID19 testing center at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah will become the fifth location Thursday for people 65 and older who have any symptoms of the coronavirus — on top of on-demand home service for those who are homebound. And on Friday, all adult day care centers or clinics and medical centers that […]
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 […]