July 21. 2020

Governor Ron DeSantis

Miami mayor Francis Suarez has announced that summer camps will be closed due to the massive spike in coronavirus cases in the State of Florida. The mayor is now concerned about schools reopening. Suarez stated this week, "You’re talking about 350,000 students plus teachers. That’s almost 400,000 people. When you talk about a super-spreader event, when you’re talking about people getting together and opening up a huge sector of our economy, major concern."

This all goes back to what I have been stating for months, it is too early to reopen schools (Schools Set To Reopen In Select Regions During Coronavirus Outbreak But Is It Safe and France Reopens Schools And Sees 70 New Coronavirus Cases Forcing Re-Closures). However, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis seeks to reopen schools in one month which is risky (Miami Has Become Coronavirus Epicenter In America (Video)).

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Miami joins county, Miami Beach in closing summer camps in local parks as COVID spreads

July 20, 2020 06:57 PM , Updated 10 hours 26 minutes ago - Miami-Dade’s Parks system has decided it can’t continue with summer camps during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended the programs early.

COVID had already upended the county’s summer camps, with most forced to close after employees tested positive for the coronavirus. Laura Phillips, a Parks Department spokeswoman, said 20 of the county’s 36 camps had already closed. Nineteen of those had employees who tested positive for the virus, and one had two children who tested positive, she said. Miami Beach is closing its summer camps next week.

The summer camp closures expanded Tuesday when Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced that the city would be closing summer camps at parks across the city after July 27. One child at Henderson Park, a pair of siblings at Coral Gate Park and a counselor at Shenandoah Park have tested positive.  The announcement led to questions of whether school classrooms should reopen, to which Suarez said he had concerns at this point.

“You’re talking about 350,000 students plus teachers. That’s almost 400,000 people,” he said. “When you talk about a super-spreader event, when you’re talking about people getting together and opening up a huge sector of our economy, major concern.”...