FACT: Florida has more than twice the national rate of COVID cases (when adjusting for population.)

But you wouldn’t know that from its’ Governor, who has consistently downplayed the pandemic and continues to resist calls to enforce masks and encourage vaccinations.

 

And today, Gov. Ron DeSantis responded that he wasn’t ‘aware’ that the Nation’s Department of Health and Human Services had shipped an emergency allotment of hundreds of ventilators to the state as hospitalizations surge.

A health administration official confirms the Strategic National Stockpile sent 200 ventilators and 100 high-flow nasal cannula kits to the state of Florida “earlier this week.” The SNS sends equipment when it receives requests from states and their health departments, according to the official.

 

 

Despite that, DeSantis told reporters Tuesday that he was unaware of the request for the medical supplies.

“I would honestly doubt that that’s true, but I’ll look because we have a lot of stuff that we stockpiled over the last year and a half through the Department of Emergency Management,” DeSantis said when asked by a reporter about a request from the state for the additional supplies.

As an acolyte of Trump, DeSantis seems to be following the same playbook…ignore the pandemic and hope it ‘will one day disappear.’

 

 

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