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Ron DeSantis: “We also up to 15 Covid only nursing homes that have 1,000…”

Featuring: Ron DeSantis, Republican | Governor of Florida

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7/15/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Holds Press Conference Regarding COVID-19

Published | Video Starts at 09:58

We also have a request that we think will be fulfilled in the near future from HHS for additional staffing and we welcome that support. We also up to 15 Covid only nursing homes that have 1,000 beds available and then we have nine sites that are going to be on the way very soon with 600 beds. And this is really, really significant because our policy from the very beginning has been you can't discharge from the hospital a resident of a long term care facility who is COVID positive and contagious back to the nursing home. (09:58–10:11)

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