Deaths from Covid-19 continue to soar in Florida, with 156 more this Monday, as Republican Ron DeSantis state government criticizes the inoculation process, as President Joe Biden’s administration says the ‘Estado del Sol’ is only half of are taking the given vaccines.
“Here (in the White House) the data comes first, here the facts come first. They’ve only distributed about 50% of the vaccines they’ve administered in Florida,” said White House spokeswoman. Jen Psaki, Monday at a press conference. .
Psaki responded in this way to a statement from DeSantis last week, stating that there was no need to deploy Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel on vaccination days in connection with a Biden plan.
“It’s clear they have a lot of vaccines,” Psaki said today, noting that the federal government will continue to supply the doses to Florida as long as they are used “effectively.”
DeSantis praises the vaccination process in Florida, but especially that it is aimed at people over 65. However, there are hospitals that have canceled appointments for these patients due to a shortage of the vaccine.
Today’s criticism of the new Democratic administration adds to the call last week by congressmen of this party to DeSantis, a political ally of former President Donald Trump, to work with Biden’s plan against the pandemic.
Florida added 8,720 new cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 156 deaths from covid-19 on Monday, for a total of 1,658,169 and 25,849 deaths, respectively, since March, according to the Florida Department of Health.
According to the latest official figures, as of Sunday afternoon, 1,379,502 people had been vaccinated with the Pfizer and Moderna compounds, of which 155,314 have received both doses of the vaccines.
Miami-Dade County has been the most affected by the pandemic, with 4,747 deaths to date and 360,831 cases since March 1, when the first was recorded.
Miami-Dade is followed by neighboring Broward County, with 167,025 cases and 2,045 deaths, and Palm Beach, with 102,968 infections and 2,123 deaths.
The Florida Department of Health reported on Monday that the number of positives in one day is 9.56% of a total of 90,043 tests performed on the last day.
The number of patients who are positive for the pathogen and have been hospitalized in Florida since March is 70,346.
Florida is the third state with the highest incidence of cases and the second with the most cases of the most contagious variant discovered in the UK, with 50 out of 195 in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC , in English). California is the first with 72 cases.
The United States surpassed 25 million people infected with the virus this Sunday, just over a year after reporting the first case of SARS-CoV-2, reaching 419,097 deaths, making the country the most affected by the world’s pandemic. affected country remains.