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The daily rundown Between Saturday and Thursday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 4,098 (0.2 percent), to 1,944,995; deaths went up by 63 (0.2 percent), to 31,683; Between Friday and Sunday, active hospitalizations fell by 121 (3.5 percent), to 3,298; 3,550,139 Floridians have had at least one dose of a vaccine.
Edging toward the exit Gov. Ron DeSantis’s top aide chief of staff Shane Strum isn’t leaving Tallahassee just yet.
A little longer Strum, who has been with the governor since the start of his administration in January 2019, was initially scheduled to take his new job as Broward Health CEO on Monday. But Strum’s departure has been delayed and he may not leave until the end of March, although word is that his exit
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 3.2.21
The Legislative Session is here, and Florida Influencers believe that come April 30, Gov.
Ron DeSantis will be the big winner.
Florida Politics asked the stateâs top consultants, lobbyists and political minds who stands to have the best Legislative Session and 43% picked the Governor. His believers include more than half of Republican Influencers, with just 27% of Democrats saying heâs their early favorite.
For the minority party, that honor goes to Senate President
Wilton Simpson, albeit by a narrow margin. Three in 10 Democrats say heâll be the clear winner when the hankie drops. More than half of independents believe the same while just 21% of Republicans agree.
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 3.1.21
With apologies to the late, great
Tim Russert ⦠The top three issues facing the 2021 Florida Legislature are COVID, COVID, COVID.
Itâs no surprise that just about everything that will happen during the 60-day Session will be directly or indirectly related to the pandemic or influenced by the countless ways it has changed life in our state.
From health care policy to the budget, from education policy to the environment, the Session will seem like all COVID-19, all the time. Even where legislation doesnât directly link to COVID-19 â say, school choice â lawmakers will be factoring in what it will cost in a pandemic-battered economy or how it will help kids whose schooling was turned upside down.
Disparities Continue Over Who Is Getting COVID Vaccine in FL
FEMA will open four mass vaccination sites in Florida in Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami Dade College’s North Campus. Around each site, two mobile units will go to nearby underserved areas with 500 vaccines a day. by Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun Sentinel / February 22, 2021 Ketley Joachim sits with her mom, Suzanne Noel, 97 from North Miami Beach after she received her vaccine during an interfaith COVID-19 vaccination drive at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in Aventura Florida hosted in partnership with a mosque and Black churches on Thursday, February 4, 2021 TNS