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Delta variant
The Delta variant is quickly sweeping across Florida, which experts say is a driving factor in the increase of COVID-19 cases statewide.
As of Thursday, the state reported a total of 871 Delta variant cases, more than three times the 280 reported last week at this time, according to FDOH data.
This data is provided to the media, including The Daytona Beach News-Journal, through weekly public records requests made by attorneys representing Gannett. The state does not publicly release this data.
Eight people statewide have died of the Delta variant, according to the FDOH data.
A 60-year-old man in Hillsborough County
Flagler County started hosting clinics at local restaurants and businesses last week, which were a success, according to Bob Snyder, health officer at the Florida Department of Health - Flagler. We went to businesses like Finn’s and Tortuga’s in Flagler Beach; continued our partnerships with Parkview Church and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church; and operated a drive-thru after-hours site two nights off Airport Road, Snyder said. Next week, we are adding new sites like the Palm Coast Community Center, AdventHealth Palm Coast and the Coquina Coast Brewing Company. This is all part of our plan to bring vaccinations to closer to where people live and work so we can reach community immunity as soon as possible.”
Now Carmen Gray is planning to use food and cooking as a way to engage the community in a discussion to support mental health and combat violence in an interactive program she titled “Who Cracked My Egg?”
For the program, Carmen Gray is extending a virtual invitation for everyone to join her in her kitchen in Palm Coast from 7 to 8 p.m. on April 13.
Participants can choose from three recipes to cook. They can cook one or all three. She asks that people join 10 minutes before the program starts.
“It’s an educational piece in which I’m able to show through the simplicity of a three-part egg: the shell; the yolk; the egg white,” Gray said, “to break those down to show what happens when trauma happens to an individual.”