Miami doctor to Gov. Desantis: Three things you need to do now to help us fight COVID
Bernard Ashby
As a doctor and a physician in Miami, I’m distressed to see hospitals in Florida are starting to fill up with COVID-19 cases, again. One in Jacksonville reported the most COVID-19 patients ever, and more children are being hospitalized. So far, nearly 39,000 Floridians have died in 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet Gov. Ron DeSantis is throwing a ticker tape parade for himself while COVID-19 cases are spiking, again.
Specifically, DeSantis has declared victory against a deadly pathogen at least three times: In May 2020, when he bucked masks and social distancing as a winning strategy; again in March 2021, when he hailed his fact-free, unscientific response as superior to ones based on facts and science, and now, when he’s selling merchandise poking fun at medical and public health experts for spending the past year telling people to take COVID-19 seriously.
DeSantis needs to stop patting himself on the back and tell every Floridian to get real about COVID-19. Until he does that, he’s making my job as a physician more difficult.
Reopened Florida too soon
DeSantis’ self-serving spin doesn’t hide the fact that he has bungled the COVID-19 response from Day One, when he snubbed scientific advice to wear masks and socially distance. Since then, he has made things worse by pretending COVID-19 didn’t exist and reopening Florida prematurely. Tellingly, each time DeSantis took a bow for kicking COVID-19 in the teeth, cases in Florida spiked, more people got sick and more people died.
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