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Ron DeSantis: “We prohibited visitation middle of March, and then…”

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8/31/2020 Governor Ron DeSantis Holds Education Roundtable in Tallahassee

Published | Video Starts at 45:04

So I was really proud to be a member of this panel led by Secretary Mayhew, who's in the process of providing you some specific recommendations. Great. Yeah. I mean, We prohibited visitation middle of March, and then prohibited hospitals from discharging a COVID positive patient back into those nursing homes. And we obviously were concerned about spread in those most vulnerable areas. And so it was something that we felt we had to do, but we understood that that's not something you take lightly. (45:04–45:15)

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Asserts that visitation was prohibited in March and hospitals were barred from discharging COVID-positive patients to nursing homes.

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