{"id":46251,"date":"2020-04-01T14:04:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46251"},"modified":"2020-04-01T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:05:07","slug":"statewide-stay-at-home-order-issued-by-governor-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/04\/statewide-stay-at-home-order-issued-by-governor-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide Stay at Home order issued by Governor DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home\norder Wednesday as federal and local pressure mounted for him to abandon the\ncounty-by-county approach he had implemented during the&nbsp;coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FoxNews\/videos\/530093821275024\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis told reporters that he is issuing the order after\nconsulting with President Donald Trump and White House advisers, who have said\nthat Americans need to stay home throughout April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 move came hours after the U.S. surgeon general,\nDr. Jerome Adams, said on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show that he would tell DeSantis that\nthe federal guidelines for social distancing should be viewed as \u201ca national\nstay-at-home order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state\u2019s confirmed cases are approaching 7,000, with 86\ndeaths and almost 900 people hospitalized, and an outbreak model cited at the\nWhite House shows exponential growth in the coming weeks. More than 30 others\nstates had already issued such orders, including other large states like\nCalifornia, New York and Illinois. Those all acted more than a week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Florida\u2019s Democratic congressional delegation\nblasted DeSantis for failing to impose a statewide lockdown, saying the virus\ndoes not respect county lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis had been defending his county-by-county approach,\nsaying it wouldn\u2019t be fair to lock down the small, mostly rural counties with\nno or few confirmed infections. He issued a stay-at-home order Monday for Miami-Dade,\nBroward and Palm Beach counties and the Florida Keys, last week ordered anyone\narriving from the New York area and Louisiana into quarantine and issued some\nstatewide measures such as closing bars and gyms and limiting restaurants to\ntakeout and delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Counties in the Tampa Bay area and central Florida issued\ntheir own lockdown orders and Jacksonville announced Wednesday that it would\njoin them on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A University of Washington model is projecting that Florida\nwill see a rapid increase in the number of deaths and hospitalizations in\nApril, with 100 people dying daily by mid-month and over 175 by May 1, when the\nnumber nears its peak. It predicts that 10,000 people will be hospitalized by\nmid-month and 20,000 on May 1. The model predicts that more than 6,500\nFloridians and more than 90,000 will die nationally from the virus by June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a statewide stay-at-home order Wednesday as federal and local pressure mounted for him to abandon the county-by-county approach he had implemented during the&nbsp;coronavirus crisis. DeSantis&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}