Collier County Government, FL Department of Health to local CBS affiliate, WINK NEWS: “A field hospital concept has been evaluated and determined unnecessary at this time due to apparent capacity at local hospitals.”
CIW response: “Given concerns of population density, underlying population risk factors and lack of existing medical infrastructure and capacity, proactive development of a field hospital [in Immokalee] would be best practice and consistent with precedents in other parts of FL and the US. Failure to prepare invites catastrophe.”
Late yesterday, we received an email from a correspondent with the local CBS affiliate, Lauren Sweeney with WINK News. WINK had done an excellent report on the petition to Governor DeSantis to help meet farmworkers’ needs for emergency medical care in the face of the coronavirus pandemic including, among other things, a field hospital or alternative care site in Immokalee. Here below is that original story:
