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Health & Society

16th Covid Death in Flagler; Old Kings and Bunnell Quarantine 2 Classes; District Will Issue Weekly Covid Report

September 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Case counts have fallen for five successive weeks in Flagler, as have testing totals. (© FlaglerLive)

In a series of development, and as a drizzle of cases continue to develop on local campuses, the Flagler Health Department and the school district will issue weekly reports detailing where in schools covid-19 cases have been confirmed, in contrast with Volusia County, where the district is refusing to disclose any such information.

State’s Legal Fees Top $800,000 In Court Fights to Keep Schools and Colleges Open

September 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued a mandate that Florida schools must open to in-person instruction. (NSF)

Florida officials have committed to spending more than half a million dollars on private lawyers to defend a mandate that schools reopen brick-and-mortar classrooms, and upwards of $300,000 in a parallel fight involving college and university reopenings amid the coronavirus pandemic.

No Symptoms? No Testing. CDC Sticks By Controversial New Guideline Despite States’ Backlash

August 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Prompted by the Trump administration, which has been stung by the high incidence of covid-19, the CDC is trashing its previous guideline on who should be tested. (Dean Calma /IAEA)

In an about-face reportedly prompted by the Trump administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week quietly narrowed its guidelines for Covid-19 testing — upending previous recommendations that all people exposed to the virus should get tested, whether they have symptoms or not.

3 Covid Cases at Bunnell and Old Kings Elementary, 2 at FPC; 21 Cases at 7 Assisted Living Facilities

August 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Students at Matanzas High School earlier this week. (Flagler Schools)

Flagler County’s Covid-19 numbers have been trending downward for the last five weeks. But new infections have emerged in schools as faculty and staff returned to campuses and, after a long period of calm, in more than half a dozen local assisted living facilities.

Cookies, Cakes and Candies: Florida Health Department Clears the Way for Edible Pot Products

August 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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The emergency rule on medical, edible pot dictates that “edibles shall be produced in a manner to minimize color intensity and other color and visual characteristics attractive to children.”

Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic

August 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Market Street, one of Palm Coast's many assisted living facilities. (© FlaglerLive)

Swing states such as Florida and Wisconsin have suspended efforts to send teams to nursing homes to assist with voting. Despite a federal law that residents must be “supported by the facility in the exercise of” their rights, some states prohibit staff from actively doing so.

Flagler Courtroom Holds 1st In-Person Criminal Trial in Florida With Conviction of Car Thief, Masks and New Exclusionary Rules

August 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A hand sanitizer was front and center at the entrance to Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County Courthouse, site of Florida's first criminal trial this week since the covid-induced closure of courthouses across the state in spring. (© FlaglerLive)

A socially distanced jury found Brian Johnson, 22, guilty of car theft and fleeing police in a 2019 incident in which Sheriff Staly was involved, after a two-day trial that excluded the public and press but was entirely webcast on YouTube for the first time ever.

Upwards of 700 Covid Cases Tied to K-12 and Higher Ed Students Across Florida in Last Two Weeks

August 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

College, university and K-12 students have been returning to campuses across Florida. Covid cases have been popping up with them. (© FlaglerLive)

The cases reflect a two-week period in which thousands of students throughout the state returned to classrooms or began moving into dorm rooms at colleges and universities.

On 1st Day of School in Flagler, Excitement Balanced by Apprehension, and Far Fewer Students Enrolled

August 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

The picture tells the story: Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt, who visited every school today, led a welcome-back line at Buddy Taylor Middle School, where every facultuy member and employee and School Board member Maria Barbosa wore a mask, as per school district regulation--with the exception of School Board Chairman Janet McDonald, who has frequently denied the severity of covid-19 and is not a big mask wearer. (© FlaglerLive)

Fewer than half the district’s students took seats in actual classrooms and 10,000 attended one of Flagler schools’ three options overall, a 23 percent decline from the district’s usual enrollment. If there was a measure of excitement about being back, there was also apprehension, uncertainty, many unanswered questions.

Judge Rules Florida ‘Ignored the Requirement of School Safety’ by Opening Campuses Prematurely

August 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A training session for faculty and staff at Wadsworth Elementary earlier this month. (Wadsworth Elementary)

Accusing the state of ignoring the Florida Constitution, a Leon County circuit judge on Monday sided with teachers unions that challenged a state order mandating that schools resume in-person instruction this month amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

How Misinformation, Federalism and Selfishness Hampered America’s Virus Response

August 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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The American response to the pandemic, many public health experts say, has been uniquely hapless, ineffective, undisciplined and selfish. By some measures, the United States has handled the health crisis as badly as any country has.

Florida’s Universities Prepare to Reopen in Uncertain Times, With Dozens of Covid Cases at 2 Campuses Already

August 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Like many colleges and universities across the state, the University of Florida is preparing to reopen on Aug. 31, under unsettled skies. (© FlaglerLive)

The situation at some Florida universities has mimicked events in other parts of the country, where several colleges experienced an uptick in infections days after students returned to campus this month.

Wear a Mask If You Can. But Don’t Bully Those Who Can’t.

August 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Prometheus, mask-bound--if he can. (© FlaglerLive)

“I know when I go out now that people are looking at me and judging me. They assume I don’t believe in science or I don’t care about their health, and neither is true,” the author writes.

Why Most Inmates Don’t Wear Masks at the Flagler County Jail: Security Trumps Covid

August 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

The Flagler County jail was not built for social distancing. (© FlaglerLive)

Daniel Engert, the sheriff’s chief of the jail and courts division, acknowledged that most inmates don;t wear masks at the county jail, but attributed the rule to security–and noted that the strategy in place has kept the count of inmate covid cases at zero, though some staffers have been infected.

Nine Covid Cases Involving Flagler School Staffers So Far in August; Commissioner Downplays Outbreaks

August 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran in Flagler County last fall. School Board member Andy Dance is in the background. (© FlaglerLive)

Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran wants superintendents check with the state before shutting down a classroom or school and to be “very surgical, not sweeping” when responding to coronavirus cases.

Flagler Schools’ Sophie’s Choice

August 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

schools sophie's choice

Flagler County and Florida schools are reopening not because it’s safe, but because ideological debauchery or anti-science vigilantism are forcing them to, even though alternatives are in place for safe and effective education.

Flagler Records 14th Covid Death; 15% of Flagler Children Tested Are Positive a Week Before School

August 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Covid cases are down in Flagler, but so is testing. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida and Flagler continues to add new infections at elevated rates even as the overall numbers have fallen from their July peak. Despite the decline, the state is experiencing new cases at a rate of nearly 7,000 a day, averaged out over the past seven days.

Dying Young: The Health Care Workers in Their 20s Killed by Covid-19

August 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Siblings Jasmine and Josh Obra both tested positive for COVID-19 on the same day. Only one of them survived. (The Obra family)

While covid-19 takes a far deadlier toll on elderly people than on young adults, an investigation of front-line health care worker deaths uncovered numerous instances when staff members under age 30 were exposed on the job and also succumbed.

Behind Façade of Flagler Schools as ‘Family,’ Bitter Discontent from Teachers, and Orders Not to Open Windows

August 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Katie Hansen, president of the Flagler County Education Association, during a bargaining session with the district's management team on Tuesday. Many employees attended by Zoom. (© FlaglerLive)

Teachers returned to Flagler’s nine public schools today amid bitter disputes over their safety and options while the district contends with innumerable and at times competing concerns, with somewhat diminished ranks and no additional resources to make it all stick. It’s going to be a difficult year.

School District Will Limit Information on Its Covid Cases Even as Flagler Children Have 17% Positivity Rate Since Mid-July

August 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

New cases of Covid 19 have been falling in the state, but remain at levels significantly higher than April's worst numbers. (© FlaglerLive)

Citing privacy, the Flagler County School District is limiting the information it releases about covid cases among its employees or students even as the proportion of positive cases among children is growing rapidly and schools are set to reopen on Aug. 24.

Superintendents Asking State for Help on Rapid Testing and Response to Positive Students and Staff

August 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Health officials are concerned concerned that the infrastructure doesn’t support the capacity to test a large number of students and school staff members if there is a covid-19 outbreak at a school.

In Good Shape? If Flagler Were Its Own Country, We’d Have the 10th Worst Covid Rate in The World

August 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 39 Comments

Not all there: detail from Constantin Brancusi's 'Socrates' (1922), at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County officials often speak triumphantly of the county’s lower covid numbers compared to the rest of the state. It’s a deceptive and reckless comparison that denies the severity of the local pandemic when placed in its proper context.

St. Johns Schools Discriminated Against Transgender Student, Appeals Court Rules in Case with Local Implications

August 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Define men. (© FlaglerLive)

On the heels of months of debate over Flagler schools’ stance on transgender students, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the St. Johns County school district discriminated against a transgender high school student by denying him the right to use the boys’ bathroom.

Flagler Crosses the 1,000 Mark in Covid Cases as It Edges Past Peak, But Significant Load Persists

August 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The number of new cases has been falling in Flagler, but so has testing. (© FlaglerLive)

Even as Flagler crossed past 1,000 covid cases, key trends have been falling from the peak of mid-July, though if numbers are stabilizing, they are doing so at still high numbers relative to the April wave.

Your Favorite Store or Restaurant Is Open. How Do You Know It’s OK to Go In?

August 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

But should you go in? (© FlaglerLive)

There are steps you can take — and signs to look for — to make you feel comfortable and help you decide whether to open the door and walk in. Sometimes, you may want to opt out.

Constitutionality of Mask Ordinance Goes Before Appeals Court in Case With Broad Implications

August 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The artist Kouji Ohno's "In the beginning was the word," masked. (Rob Oo)

Plaintiff Evan Power, the Leon County Republican Party chairman, is teaming with state Rep. Anthony Sabatini, R-Howey-in-the-Hills, to challenge the county’s ordinance, which a Leon County judge found constitutional.

37% of Flagler Students Opt for Online Instruction; School Board Clashes Over Meaning of Covid ‘Data’

August 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

To lockdown or not to lockdown? (© FlaglerLive)

While facing some public and employee anxieties the Flagler school district is moving ahead with reopening, though key criteria such as when a school or in-person instruction would be shut down from a covid outbreak remain a mystery, raising further questions.

Flagler Beach’s Bruce Garrison One of 2 More Covid-Related Deaths, Bringing Flagler’s Total to 14

August 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Weekly tests and positive cases for Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

Bruce Garrison, 66, had been a supervisor at Flagler Beach’s city-run sanitation department. His death and that of a 69-year-old man bring Flagler County’s total to 14, including two non-residents, as covid-19 cases nearly tripled locally since the beginning of July.

Lyft Rider Accused of Attacking and Spitting on Palm Coast Driver Was Upset By Covid-Protecting Partition

August 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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Travis Schriever Smith, 36, of Palm Coast faces criminal charges after allegedly ripping down a covid-protecting partition in a Lyft car, attacking the driver and spitting on him.

Scientists Rely on Unproven Methods to Create Covid Vaccines, But Fauci Sees Breakthrough

August 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

“There’s no reason to believe that we won’t be able to develop a vaccine against" covid-19, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert. (NIH)

With millions of lives on the line, researchers have been working at an unprecedented pace to develop a covid-19 vaccine. But that speed — and some widely touted breakthroughs — belie the enormous complexity and potential risks involved.

Florida Pediatricians Say Districts With Positivity Rate Higher Than 5% Must Delay Opening

July 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The good old days. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida pediatricians Wednesday released recommendations aimed at reducing risks to children and teachers, saying the benefits of reopening schools will not outweigh the health risks in many areas for the next four to six weeks.

Flagler Health Department’s Medical Chief Rebukes ‘Covid Minimizers’ as Deaths Surge and Hospitalizations Persist

July 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler Health Department staffers setting up a new covid-19 testing location at Cattleman's Hall at the county fairgrounds earlier this week. The location is open three days a week, six hours a day. (DOH)

Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia health departments, criticized “covid minimizers” for seizing on rogue data to diminish the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic, hurting efforts to fight it.

Union Calls for Online Classes Only at Florida’s Colleges and Universities

July 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The view at the University of Florida. (© FlaglerLive)

The push to keep university and college campuses closed during the fall semester, amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, adds another pressure point on the Republican governor, who is increasingly facing criticism for how he has reopened the state.

Flagler’s Free Clinic Extends Hours to Accommodate Unemployed or Uninsured due to Covid

July 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Flagler County's Free Clinic is open. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler Free Clinic has extended operating hours to assist anyone who has become unemployed or lost their medical insurance due to the covid-19 pandemic.  

When Is a Coronavirus Test Not a Coronavirus Test?

July 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

A coronavirus test. (© FlaglerLive)

Coronavirus testing in the United States has been bungled in every way imaginable. Tests are now widely available in many places, but results are often taking so long to come back that it is more or less pointless to get tested.

Flagler Adds 2 More Covid Deaths, for Total of 12; Flagler Children’s Overall Positivity Rate at 10%

July 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Flagler County cases increased significantly for the sixth successive week ending Saturday. (© FlaglerLive)

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 55 Flagler County children ages 17 or younger have tested positive out of 545 tested, yielding a positivity rate of 10.1 percent–a rate higher than commonly assumed.

Florida Regulators Looking for Ideas on Reopening Bars to Stem Business Losses

July 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

beer covid bars

Department of Business and Professional Regulation Secretary Halsey Beshears said he will begin setting aside time to discuss his June 26 order that banned on-site consumption at bars to try to help stem the spread of covid-19.

Underfunded and Under Threat: Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus

July 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Public Health departments across the county, including Flagler's, are operating on vastly diminished budgets compared to 10 years ago. (© FlaglerLive)

The U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century. In Florida, 2% of state spending goes to public health. Spending by local health departments in the state fell 39%, from a high of $57 in inflation-adjusted dollars per person in the late 1990s to $35 per person last year.

Flagler Covid Cases Set New Record for the Week, Including 6 Children 14 Or Younger; 22 in Treatment at AdventHealth

July 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The number of new cases in Flagler County set a new record this week, with one day to go in the week's reporting. (© FlaglerLive)

The latest Flagler County residents to test positive include girls age 2, 5 and 8 and boys age 8, 9 and 14, which raises concern for school and health officials looking at the reopening of local schools.

My Son Is the Student-Athlete at Matanzas Who Tested Positive. Here’s My Advice to the District.

July 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

School Board member Andy Dance displayed the flags of the two high schools' Class of 2020 at a board meeting a few weeks ago. The shape of the Class of 2021 is in flux. (© FlaglerLive)

The mother of the Matanzas High School student-athlete who tested positive for Covid-19 describes the experience and provides suggestions to the school district, and the community, on how to handle school athletics this coming year. In short, don’t cancel them.

5th Covid Death in Eight Days in Flagler; 9 Year Old Dies in Putnam; Florida Reports Record 173 Deaths

July 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it "stabilization." (© FlaglerLive)

The latest person to die locally is a 73-year-old man, bringing the total number of Covid-related deaths in the county to at least 10. Flagler has recorded 112 new cases in five days this week, with a rising positivity rate.

As Long Waits for Results Render Covid Tests ‘Useless,’ Florida Among States Seeking Workarounds

July 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

People getting tested for Covid-19 are finding that delays can outlast the period of their quarantine. (© FlaglerLive)

Quest announced that turnaround times had slowed to a week or more, up from three or four days in June. It also said some patients may face wait times of up to two weeks. Quest officials warned this week that could get worse as flu season starts this fall.

Flagler Reports Another Covid Death; School District Postpones All Fall Sports Indefinitely

July 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The week ending July 25 includes four of seven days' reporting by the state Department of Health. (© FlaglerLive)

The Health Department said a 92-year-old woman who’d been hospitalized with Covid died in hospice. The school district announced that all fall sports, including football and volleyball, are postponed until further notice.

Jacksonville Sheriff Warns He Can’t Keep GOP Convention Safe. Republicans Move Ahead Anyway.

July 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

One of the convention sites in Jacksonville. (Wikimedia Commons)

“Where we are today is we can’t support this plan,” Sheriff Mike Williams, a Republican, said. “Where do we go from here is a good question. But where we are today, we can’t support it.”

How to Understand Covid-19 Numbers

July 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Viewed in isolation or presented without context, coronavirus numbers don’t always give an accurate picture of how the pandemic is being handled. Here, two journalists offer insight on how to navigate the figures.

Flagler School Board Supports Pushing Back Opening to Aug. 24; Up to 40% May Opt for Remote Learning

July 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Christine Patterson, a former Flagler County teacher, at the desmonstration she organized this evening before the Flagler County School Board meeting at the Government Services Building parking lot. The demonstration, in vehicles, was to show opposition to the district's reopening plan. It was planned before the board's discussion today on delaying reopening for two weeks for students. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler School Board supports its superintendent’s request to delay school’s opening to Aug. 28 for students, and at least to Aug. 10 for faculty, to give staff more time to prepare for a radically different school-campus landscape that may be missing up to 40 percent of in-person students.

Student Athlete Tests Positive at Matanzas High as FHSAA Opts for Regular-Season Schedule Against Advice

July 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A student athlete has tested positive at Matanzas High School. (c FlaglerLive)

Athletes in several school sports have been preparing for the fall season, which is set to resume at the same time as school’s resumption on Aug. 10, though Covid-19 cases are surging in Flagler and Florida.

Teachers Unions Sue Gov. DeSantis and Corcoran Over “Unsafe” Reopening of Schools as Virus Surges

July 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

What will it look like? (© FlaglerLive)

Florida’s teacher unions have sued Gov. Rick DeSantis today, calling a state order to open schools to in-person instruction as the coronavirus surges “unsafe” and in violation of the state Constitution’s requirement that schools are operated safely.

For Covid Tests, the Question of Who Pays Comes Down to Interpretation

July 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A testing tent, minus the testers. (© FlaglerLive)

Who pays when all employees are required to have a negative Covid test in order to return to work? Or if a factory tests workers every two weeks? Or just because someone wants to know for their own peace of mind?

Flagler Covid Cases Jump By 38 In a Day; Positive Staffers at 2 Assisted Livings; Older Children Just as Infectious, Study Finds

July 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Only Brazil and India have Covid numbers worse than Florida in July, though Brazil has a population of 210 million and India a population of 1.3 billion. Florida's rate of infection is significantly higher. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler has seen 157 new cases in the last seven days, a quarter of its total since March and by far the most accelerated pace of new infections since the pandemic began, with a positivity rate of 10.6 percent. The largest study to date on the subject finds that older school-children are just as likely to be infectious as adults.

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