In Florida, the decisions about infectious disease and all kinds of issues related to public health come from the state capital. Tallahassee calls the shots on things like masking vaccines and quarantine. For decades, though, individual counties actually had a lot of say over public health.
Until 2018, fentanyl was mailed into the U.S. from China, but now it’s primarily transported across the Mexican border by cartels, says Dr. Kenneth Palestrant.