Terrifying Florida details in this story. Buckle up: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Stay-at-home orders have nearly halted travel for most Americans, but people in Florida, the Southeast and other places that waited to enact such orders have continued to travel widely, potentially exposing more people as the outbreak accelerates. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
A half-dozen of the most populous counties where residents were traveling widely last week are in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis resisted calling for a statewide lockdown until Wednesday. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
People in Jacksonville, Tampa, Daytona Beach, Lakeland and surrounding areas continued to travel much more than people in other parts of the country, putting those areas at a higher risk for outbreaks in the coming weeks. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
In Jacksonville, the sheriff’s department had to send out officers over the weekend to break up *block parties.* nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Florida waited so long to shut down travel that it will struggle to control local outbreaks even if people immediately change their behavior significantly, said Thomas Hladish, an infectious disease modeler at the University of Florida. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
The governor finally issued a stay at home order on Wednesday. It takes effect on Friday. Tomorrow. nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/…
It was evident early on that the coronavirus posed a unique risk to the state. nytimes.com/2020/03/18/us/…
