Since the first week of December, when the krewe reiterated that the Navarre Beach parade would go on as planned, the percentage of positive COVID-19 cases in Santa Rosa County has spiked multiple times.
The month-long high for positive cases in Santa Rosa peaked at 25.87% on Dec. 15, according to state reports. That figure had hovered at about 17% in early December.
"The rise in cases in Santa Rosa County, and different friends and family members that have actually contracted it, just brought further to light that we need to protect the community," Deb Sinagra, the krewe's membership chairwoman, said in a Friday phone interview. "Although it won't be good for the businesses, we had to think of the community as a whole."