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A DeSantis spokeswoman meantime called it a manufactured narrative with political motivations.
Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried said she was asking the FBI to investigate DeSantis after news reports suggesting he gave special treatment to an ultra-exclusive South Florida neighborhood. I will not stand by and let our vaccines be used as political game, and to go . to the highest bidders while so many of our Floridians are suffering, like my grandmother, like my mother, like your parents and grandparents, she told reporters Thursday morning.
This week, the Miami Herald reported that Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, home to 17 people who each made political contributions of $5,000 to DeSantis last year, gave both doses of COVID vaccine to 1,200 people there in mid-January.
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Three more Leon County residents have died because of COVID-19 and 223 more residents have tested positive for the virus, the Florida Department of Health reported on Thursday.
Leon County now has had 224 residents die of the 25,180 residents who have tested positive for the virus since March.
Moreover, two more Jackson County residents and one more Taylor County resident also have died because of the virus, the state health department confirmed.
Jackson County has seen 133 residents die of the 5,535 who have tested positive, according to state data.
Taylor County has had 34 residents die because of the virus of the 2,446 who have tested positive, according to the state.
Fla. Senate Democratic Leader Gary Farmer tests positive for COVID-19
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Sen. Gary Farmer, D-Lighthouse Point, debates on a bill to allow teachers to be armed during session Wednesday April 17, 2019, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Florida Senate Democratic Leader Gary Farmer announced in a press release Thursday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. On Monday I tested negative for the virus via two different tests, said Sen. Farmer. A few hours after that test, I learned that I had been exposed to someone in Tallahassee who had tested positive. I immediately left the Capitol and have not returned since. Yesterday I retested, and very late last night I learned that I had tested positive