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The daily rundown Between Sunday and Monday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 5,737 (0.3 percent), to 1,783,720; active hospitalizations went down by 1 to 5,381; deaths rose by 119 (0.4 percent) to 27,815.
Vote for Tim Four years ago, the number of Florida voters who left their ballot blank or decided to write-in the names of candidates such as Beyonce or Tim Tebow soared during the presidential election that featured Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Good Friday morning.
The daily rundown Between Wednesday and Thursday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 12,873 (0.8 percent), to 1,613,884; active hospitalizations decreased by 123 (1.7 percent), to 7,024; deaths rose by 161 (nearly 0.7 percent), to 24,739.
Courtroom drama Who’s ready to relitigate 2018? It seems as if Sen. Rick Scott wants to. Or at least he wants to somehow use those elections as part of his justification to explain his decision to vote against the certification of President Joe Biden’s election after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In the headlines:
► Rebekah Jones, the fired Florida Department of Health data scientist-turned-whistleblower, turned herself in to police Sunday night to face a felony charge.
► The majority of Americans say the coronavirus pandemic is out of control, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. Only about 1 in 10 Americans say the pandemic is mostly under control, the poll found. The nationwide survey shows that large majorities of people of all political affiliations say they think the deadly virus, which arrived in the country nearly a year ago, is only somewhat under control or not at all controlled, the Washington Post said.
In the headlines:
► Canada won’t be getting any Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines next week and 50% fewer than expected over the next month, officials said Tuesday, prompting the premier of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, to ask U.S. President Joe Biden to share a million doses from Pfizer’s Michigan plant.
► Florida’s surgeon general urged the federal government Wednesday to increase allotments of coronavirus vaccine to states like his where large concentrations of seniors face the greatest risk of illness and death from COVID-19.
► India began supplying coronavirus vaccines to its neighboring countries on Wednesday. India’s Foreign Ministry said the country would send 150,000 shots of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine to Bhutan and 100,000 shots to the Maldives.