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Chairman's Message
Governor DeSantis Stays Focused on Saving
Lives
Governor DeSantis is prioritizing rapid response
strike teams centers for Florida Covid patients by setting up
new monoclonal antibody therapy treatment sites in Broward County,
West Palm Beach County, Brevard County, Orlando and Jacksonville, with
more to come around the state. These locations will have the capacity
to serve hundreds of patients every day in areas with higher
outbreaks. It’s strategic and making a difference.
“Early
monoclonal antibody treatment keeps people out of the hospital and
saves lives,” said Governor Ron DeSantis. “We look forward to
continuing to open these sites throughout the state and hope awareness
about the treatment continues to spread.”
Crisscrossing the state to raise awareness of these
effective drug treatments, the Governor is also energetically backed
by leading medical professionals in Florida.
“The
Governor is absolutely spot on,” said John Couris, President and CEO
of Tampa General Hospital. “This is a therapy that is effective, but
this is a therapy that is less known. This is a therapy that needs to
be taken advantage of and Tampa General Hospital, USF and our private
practice physicians are using it very successfully on positive
COVID-19 patients.”
“We were
the first system in Florida to offer monoclonal antibodies to COVID
patients,” said Dr. Kami Kim, MD, from Tampa General and USF Morsani
College of Medicine. “So far we have treated over 1,600 patients with
monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID. These treatments, as Governor
DeSantis, Dean Lockwood and Mr. Couris said, prevent the virus from
infecting our cells. You probably heard them called ‘neutralizing
antibodies’ and that is because they neutralize the virus. That's a
pretty powerful treatment against the virus that is very effective in
our own studies and in studies across the country.”
More
monoclonal antibody strike teams are being created to take treatment
directly to Florida’s vulnerable populations in long-term care
facilities. Rather than having nursing home residents be required to
leave the facility to receive monoclonal antibody therapy, these teams
will deploy to them on site to provide treatment.
“The
monoclonal antibody treatment can be a game changer if you get it
early,” said Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration
Simone Marstiller. “I have seen firsthand how effective this therapy
can be at keeping people out of the hospital and speeding their
recovery. Once again, Governor DeSantis has prioritized Florida’s
seniors and has created a delivery system for the monoclonal antibody
treatment that will allow Florida’s most vulnerable citizens to
receive the treatment without leaving their long-term care facility
and keeping them at home and out of hospitals.”
To
find locations to receive monoclonal antibody treatments: floridahealthcovid19.gov.
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Note on the our Third Quarter
Meeting:
Omni Hotels & Resorts will continue with its
current Safe
and Clean protocols, but will follow state and local mandates
pertaining to guest and associate requirements for mask wearing and
social distancing while indoors. At this time there aren’t any
mandates for Osceola or Orange county.
Florida
The
Florida Board of Education voted to hold Broward County and Alachua
County school boards accountable for imposing strict mask
requirements in violation of new state rules.
“Every
school board member and superintendent has the duty to comply with the
law, whether they agree with it or not,” said Florida Education
Commissioner Richard Corcoran during an emergency meeting Tuesday
evening.
The state
board voted to direct Corcoran “to take all legal steps” to enforce
the state rules. Those new rules aim to guarantee that parents have
the right to decide if their children wear masks at school or not.
Board
Chairman Tom Grady outlined the potential actions: “That may include
withholding funds from the district — although I would add a footnote
that I do not want to withhold funds in a way that would harm any
child in any district...It may involve withholding salaries. It may
involve removing officers...It may involve reviewing district conduct.
It may involve public records requests to see how monies are being
spent within the district, including whether they're being spent for
public relations or political purposes contrary to their
constitutional mandate. It would include enhanced reporting and
accountability to this board.”
He also
said that there may be a report to the Legislature with
recommendations for lawmakers to take further steps in law.
Governor DeSantis is proposing three policies for
the next session to help recruit law enforcement officers.
The
Governor announced the policies at the 2021 Biennial National
Conference & Expo hosted by the National Fraternal Order of Police
with the goal of continuing to show Florida’s support for its high
quality local and state law enforcement agencies.
“As so many
cities and states choose to disrespect, degrade and defund the
honorable work of law enforcement, we want Florida to continue valuing
our men and women of law enforcement today, tomorrow and for
generations to come,” Governor DeSantis said. “That’s why today, I am
proud to announce new initiatives to recruit and reward brave, high
quality law enforcement officers in Florida that I will be including
in my legislative priorities for our upcoming legislative session,
including $5,000 signing bonuses.”
These
proposals provide state resources to recruit law enforcement officers
through three programs:
- New
officer signing bonuses;
- Academy
scholarship program;
- Out-of-state relocation support.
To
read more: https://www.flgov.com/2021/08/17/governor-ron-desantis-announces-new-initiatives-to-recruit-law-enforcement-officers-to-florida/
Watch the full event video here: https://rumble.com/vlbet4-governor-ron-desantis-announces-new-initiatives-to-recruit-law-enforcement-.html
Washington,
D.C.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio was on Fox News’
Sean Hannity program explaining that Biden was warned for
months what would happen in Afghanistan if there was a precipitous
U.S. withdrawal of military forces. And he ignored it, and the
consequences happened.
“Sean, not
just did I tell them, but it was a bipartisan warning, OK?” he said.
“You look at the intelligence, you look at everything before us, it
was clear that not only was it the worst-case scenario out there, it
was the likeliest outcome that was going to happen, and we kept
insisting, what is the plan if this happens? What is the plan? And
they arrogantly, and they smugly ignored it. They ignored everyone who
was warning them because they’re the experts, they know everything,
and now we’ve seen the consequences."
“There are
two things now to keep in mind,” Rubio continued. “Number one is Joe
Biden was elected promising competence, the return on normalcy, the
return of expertise to foreign policy, and we see that they can’t even
execute on something like this, and ignore the people who know
something about it. That does encourage people like China — countries
like China and other adversaries not just to go out and try to
undermine confidence in America, but actually test America and think
they can get away with it.”
“And the
other is something that the Pentagon’s already saying, and we’ve
already been saying for close to nine months, the biggest problem here
is going to be now that al Qaeda is coming back to Afghanistan, let
there be no doubt,” he added.
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