Name: 7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka
Uploaded: 2020-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
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Description: 7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka

“Long term care residents, about 150,000 in the state of Florida, mostly in their 70s and 80s, represent almost 50% of the COVID related…”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 15:02-15:14

“We've averaged over the last seven days over 100,000 tests a day.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 17:06-17:11

“The case fatality rate in Florida is about 1.5%.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 22:48-23:02

“The national average case fatality rate is about 4%.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 22:48-23:02

“I dedicate 250 million of the CARES act funds to towards affordable housing assistance.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 01:17-01:24

“120 million for short term rental assistance for tenants and properties within the Florida Housing Finance Corporation's portfolio.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 01:23-01:32

“10 million for special needs, homelessness, housing and administrative expenses related to the program.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 01:36-01:43

“Florida Housing Finance Corp. Has just approved the $75 million to distribute to counties for rental and mortgage assistance.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 01:45-01:53

“Orange county will receive $7.26 million, which is one of the highest in the state.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 02:01-02:08

“Seminole county will receive 1.1 million and Osceola will receive 2.5 million.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 02:07-02:13

“Unemployment numbers that were out today, I think the state was 10.7.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 02:42-02:49

“Central Florida was more than that [10.7% unemployment rate].”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 02:52-02:54

“The White House is accelerating more remdesivir to the state of Florida.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 11:41-11:46

“We have 21% of the beds statewide are available.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 12:31-12:37

“That's a greater percentage than was available in early March before the pandemic took off.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 12:37-12:43

“Typically hospitals run at 90% or 88, 90%.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 12:42-12:48

“Now we have less than 80% of the beds are actually in use.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 12:50-12:55

“We've sent hundreds of medical personnel to different parts of the state, particularly Miami Dade county.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 14:02-14:10

“We have over 1,000 beds operational throughout the state for Covid only nursing homes.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 16:07-16:14

“The percentage of new cases that are positive has stabilized and even maybe slightly down from where it was two weeks ago.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 17:37-17:47

“The Department of Urgency management has severed ties with one of the labs who was taken a week, diverting that business from our drive…”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 19:19-19:29

“We've also, the state Department of Emergency Management has put out new retail sites at Home Depots.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 20:53-21:00

“The positivity rate for people 18 to 24 is 17%.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 21:57-22:06

“The positivity rate for people 65 to 84 is 6.5%.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 22:06-22:17

“Many of the other states, particularly in the Northeast, are 5, 6, 7% case fatality rates.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 22:55-23:02

“We're testing all the staff every two weeks at over 4,000 long term care facilities throughout the state of Florida.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 23:41-23:45

“We've now had samples taken from all 200,000 [staff] over the last two weeks.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 23:51-23:57

“The rate of positive [COVID-19 tests among long-term care staff] is significantly lower than statewide, a little under 3%.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 24:08-24:24

“Visits to emergency departments for Covid like illnesses have declined for seven days here in the state of Florida.”

7/17/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Makes a Major Announcement in Apopka | Uploaded July 17, 2020 | 24:47-24:55

Ron DeSantis: “120 million to counties to provide rental and mortgage…”