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In-Person Jury Trials Suspended in Flagler Until at Least Late January as Covid Trolls

December 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Precautions aren't enough: Flagler County's judicial personnel will not be holding in-person trials until at least the latter end of January due to Covid-19. (© FlaglerLive)

There will be no in-person jury trials in Flagler County until at least January 19 due to the very high incidence of coronavirus cases in the county. The county in the week ending last Saturday broke yet another record in confirmed cases for the previous seven days, with a total of 270, and a cumulative total exceeding 3,500.

Going Against CDC, DeSantis Orders Vaccine Priority for 65 and Older, Not Teachers and Other Essential Workers

December 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis addressing reporters today in Pensacola in a still from a WFLA video posted on the Governor's Facebook page.

The DeSantis order contradicts Centers for Disease Control guidelines issued on Tuesday that recommend that, once health care and long-term care workers and residents have received the vaccine, the next groups should not be defined only by age, but also by critical front-line jobs, including teachers and school employees, and underlying conditions.

Covid Deaths in Flagler at 47, Week’s Positive Cases Shatter Record in Evidence of Thanksgiving Spike as Vaccines Arrive

December 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The week ending Dec. 19 shattered the record for positive cases in Flagler County, with a total of 220 confirmed. (© FlaglerLive)

The 220 confirmed positive coronavirus cases in Flagler County in the week ending Saturday set a new single-week record in the county since the pandemic began in February. Local health officials caution that the numbers may get worse with Christmas and cold weather ahead, and broad-based vaccination still weeks away.

Covid Testing Schedule and Locations in Flagler-Palm Coast Through the End of the Year

December 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A coronavirus test. (© FlaglerLive)

The Florida Department of Health in Flagler County  reaffirmed its weekday Covid-19 testing schedule for the weeks leading up to and following the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Flagler Schools Will Replace Most Covid-Positive Alert Letters With Web-Based Dashboard Updated Daily

December 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Covid testing at the Flagler Health Department in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

A new dashboard tracking positive Covid cases throughout the school district will go live Jan. 4. Parents and others have grown increasingly jaded with the Flagler school district’s drizzle of notification letters whenever positive Covid cases are confirmed.

‘Each Day Matters’: Covid Vaccinations Start at Nursing Homes in Florida

December 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Florida received 179,400 doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week. About 100,000 were sent to five Florida hospitals, and tens of thousands of doses went to CVS and Walgreens, which signed agreements with the federal government to vaccinate residents and staff members at long-term care facilities.

Hospitals Scramble to Prioritize Which Workers Are First for Scarce Covid Vaccine

December 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that top priority go to long-term care facilities and front-line health care workers, but the early allocation was always expected to fall far short of the need and require selective screening even among critical hospital workers.

As Covid Deaths Reach 46 in Flagler, Local Officials Detail Vaccination Plans and Refute Anti-Vaxxers’ Disinformation

December 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler's weekly positive-coronavirus case load through last Saturday. In the five days since, 99 cases have been confirmed, with two days of reporting left. (© FlaglerLive)

Dr. Stephen Bickel and Bob Snyder of the Flagler Health Department outlined the logistics of vaccinating all residents and refuted disinformation about the dangers of vaccines, describing how individuals may feel after getting vaccinated and what the chances are of having adverse reactions.

43rd Flagler Resident Dies of Covid; Local Covid Hospitalizations at 15; Fire Chief Out Sick, County Refuses to Say Who’s In Charge

December 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The number of Covid-related hospitalizations is reaching highs last seen in summer. (© FlaglerLive)

Some 47 Palm Coast city government employees are currently out either directly or indirectly affected by Covid, but the county is refusing to disclose numbers, or say who’s leading the fire department, whose interim chief, Joe King, has been out with a covid diagnosis.

We Need a Crisis-Proof Safety Net for Parents

November 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The collapse of child care and traditional schooling is having a devastating effect on women in particular. Part of the problem is just plain sexism. But another part is more complicated.

Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.

November 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

As Covid-19 cases skyrocket, political leaders have struggled to balance concerns about individual freedom and harm to the economy with the imperative of curbing the virus’s spread. (Alliance for Excellent Education)

Eleven states let school districts decide whether students and staff must wear masks. One Georgia middle school where masks were optional–only about half of the children wore them–became the center of an outbreak.

Oral Arguments on Alachua’s Mask Mandate Evoke Hijabs, Nazis, KKK, Crime and, Finally, Public Health

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The appeal was argued on Zoom before, Judges (© FlaglerLive)

Oral arguments about Alachua County’s mask mandate before a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeal Monday was a spectacle of audacious leaps and strange analogies that nevertheless illustrated the sharp and far from resolved divide between mask proponents and anti-maskers, including on the judicial bench.

Powered by Vacation Rentals, Flagler’s Tourism Revenue Is Up Significantly as State’s Drops 30%

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Flagler County’s tourism-tax revenue has gone up three successive months between July and September, substantially so in August and September, in contrast with statewide tourism revenue, which plummeted 30 percent in the third quarter. Vacation rentals, the beach, and vacationers traveling shorter distances account for the county’s success.

‘That Covid Kicked My Butt’: Flagler Infections Reach 2nd-Highest Weekly Total, 32 in Schools

November 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The week ending Saturday saw the second-highest number of cases in Flagler County since the beginning of the pandemic. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County has the 10th-lowest average in the last seven days among Florida’s 67 counties. But those are relative and deceptive numbers that appear better only in relation to much worse numbers elsewhere. In the absolute local numbers remain dismal–and dangerous–by any measure.

Covid Hospitalizations Up 25% in 2 Weeks Statewide, Flagler Cases Above 100 for 3rd Week In a Row

November 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

As Gov. Ron DeSantis adopts a dangerous policy of letting the coronavirus run its course to build herd immunity, case loads are steadily rising in Florida and remain high in Flagler, suggesting that the surge experienced across the country will likely cascade over Florida with colder weather and more indoor activities.

Appeals Court Will Hear Challenge to Alachua County’s Mask Mandate

November 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

It's not complicated. (Mac McCreery)

The Alachua County case, which will be heard Nov. 23 by a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, could serve as a test for mask requirements that have been approved in various parts of the state.

How Escalating Covid Cases Forced Conservative Montana to Change Its Masking Strategy

November 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

While the state’s public mask mandate has been in place since July, enforcement had been left to local governments that largely lack the resources or the political will to do so. It’s an issue seen across the nation as public health decisions to curb the coronavirus are resisted by local leaders, business owners and individuals who are sick of pandemic rules — or too broke to continue them — or who question the state’s authority to issue them in the first place. (Tony Alter)

When appealing to people’s better nature and sense of community didn’t work, Montana officials began a steady escalation: adding in guilt, then public shaming, and now attempts to punish. Still, there’s little evidence that minds are being changed, and a new Republican governor-elect, Greg Gianforte, will take over in January after campaigning more on “personal responsibility” than on state-issued mandates.

Herding People to Slaughter: The Dangerous Fringe Theory Behind the Push Toward Herd Immunity

October 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Contrary to the so-called Great Barrington declaration’s claims, a herd immunity strategy, according to the memo, will surely cause a huge number of preventable deaths, run the risk of triggering recurrent epidemics, and potentially “overwhelm the ability of healthcare systems to provide acute and routine care.”

Covid Cases Rising Again in Flagler and Florida, Pointing to ‘Third Wave’; DeSantis Relaxes Nursing Home Visits

October 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Coronavirus cases are again surging in Flagler, as they are in Florida and the rest of the nation, pointing to a fall wave. The current week includes only six of the seven days of tabulated cases. (© FlaglerLive)

Four weeks after the governor lifted all restrictions on restaurants and other businesses, Covid-19 cases are again rising in Flagler County and Florida, mirroring on a smaller scale a surge cascading across the country and sparing few states as officials speak of a third wave of the pandemic on the cusp of the holiday season.

Two Covid-Related Deaths Bring Flagler’s Total to 36; Florida’s 7-Day Average Is Up 29% From 2 Weeks Ago

October 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Flagler County's case load remains high relative to the spring. (© FlaglerLive)

In Flagler, the weekly case load continues to to remain stubbornly high, relative to the summer spike, even though relative to other counties in the state Flagler is in better shape. It has the 22nd lowest rate of infection, out of 67 counties, based on the last seven days’ average.

Unemployment Ticks Down to 6.2% in Flagler and Up to 7.6% in Florida as Recovery Slows

October 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The unemployment is flattening this fall. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s labor force had been setting records and moving toward the 50,000 mark just before covid struck. It is now at 45,902, down from 47,459 a year ago. There are 2,700 fewer unemployed persons in the county today than there were a year ago.

Covid Death Rate in Florida’s Nursing Homes Exceeded the National Average in Last 4 Weeks, Infections Are Double

October 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The rate of infected nursing-home residents in Florida was 4.5 percent, compared to 2.6 percent nationally. Moreover, the rate of infected staff members in Florida nursing homes was 3.9 per 100 residents, exceeding the national average of 2.5 per 100 residents.

With 33rd and 34th Deaths, More Flagler Residents Have Died of Covid in 7 Months Than in Car Crashes in Any Year

October 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Positive cases continue to accumulate at relatively high levels even after coming down from summer peaks. (© FlaglerLive)

The number of confirmed covid deaths so far means that the disease is the eighth leading cause of death in Flagler County, ahead of suicide and Parkinson’s, and about even with deaths from Alzheimer’s. At the current rate, covid is on pace to become the sixth leading cause of death this year, ahead of diabetes.

I Endorse Jacinda Ardern

October 8, 2020 | Pierre Tristam | 23 Comments

Jacina Ardern, covid's nemesis. (DonkeyHotey)

What country of 5 million has 300 fewer overall coronavirus cases than Flagler County, seven fewer covid-related deaths and zero mendacious elected officials who pat themselves on the back in the face of infections, suffering and cavalier attitudes?

Florida Jobless Claims Up Again to Highest Number in 4 Weeks Despite Lifted Restrictions as Layoffs Pile Up

October 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

tourism florida down

First-time unemployment claims jumped last week to 40,200 in Florida, up from 32,400 the previous week, as a growing number of major entertainment and travel-related businesses, including Disney and Universal cut hours and lay off employees.

Bunnell Joins Palm Coast and Ag Museum in Cancelling Halloween Gigs; Sheriff’s Car Event Gridlocks

October 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

coronavirus scare halloween

Bunnell’s big annual Halloween event at Saw Mill Estates was cancelled as the city worried of becoming the next superspreader, and the CDC is advising against large trick-or-treating or trunk-or-treating events. The sheriff’s trunk-or-treat event at Rymfire Tuesday drew an outsized response and complaints about delays.

3rd Covid Death Linked to Social Club of Palm Coast Superspreaders, and 2 More Bring Flagler’s Total to 32

October 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Less than two days after confirming three more covid-related deaths this week, the Flagler Health Department this morning confirmed three more, including a third death related to the August superspreader events at the Social Club of Palm Coast. The Club meanwhile has reopened and is advertising its social events on its Facebook page without a word about the victims.

Three More Covid Deaths Bring Flagler’s Total to 29 Even as New Infection Numbers Stabilize

October 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The continuing death toll is a reflection of covid’s unavoidable reality: while the number of new infections in the state and in Flagler have fallen and stabilized since the summer’s peak, the numbers have done so at a relatively high level.

‘Don’t Be Afraid of Covid’? Not Buying It, Unless Businesses Do Their Job Right

October 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Covid safety is more than skin-deep. (Christof Timmermann)

As stores, restaurants, airlines and offices try to lure clients back, this is what they need to do to earn my business: Make me feel safe — no, make me be as safe as possible. As I’ve begun to explore old haunts, some are doing a fabulous job. Others are not.

Health Department Chief Rips Social Club of Palm Coast for Preventable Covid “Illness and Tragedy”

October 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

The Social Club of Palm Coast's secretary was defensive and inaccurate as she told the County Commission that the superspreader could have happened anywhere. (© FlaglerLive)

The County Commission asked Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder to explain the superspreader event at the Social Club of Palm Coast that led to dozens of infections and two deaths, and Snyder did not hold back placing the responsibility for the “tragedy” squarely on the club’s non-enforcement of masking and social distancing rules.

The Mysterious White House Testing Scheme That Did Not Protect Donald Trump

October 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

A still from the president's latest video from the hospital.

President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis is raising fresh questions about the White House’s strategy for testing and containing the virus for a president whose cavalier attitude about the coronavirus has persisted since it landed on American shores.

As Disney Lays Off 6,700 Due to Low Attendance, DeSantis Congratulates Himself on Reopening

October 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

More toys than people at Disney lately. (© FlaglerLive)

In mid-September, Universal Orlando extended furloughs of 5,398 workers at least six more months and SeaWorld of Florida announced it would lay off 1,896 of its previously furloughed workers.

Abridged by Pandemic, City Rep Theatre Season Kicks Off with Wacky Shakespeare in the Socially Distanced Park

October 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The director in his labyrinth: John Sbordone is taking City Repertory Theatre productions outdoor for the troupe's 11th season, starting with Shakespeare. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre returns for the first time since the pandemic with “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” in an outdoors production at the Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s venue in Town Center, with socially distanced seating.

Our Toothless Mask Mandates

October 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The sign at the entrance to the Social Club of Palm Coast on Old Kings Road. It did not stop patrons from taking off their masks once inside and triggering superspreader events in late August. The club reopened on Monday after a hiatus for cleaning. (© FlaglerLive)

Americans have gotten used to all sorts of mandates, from cleaning up after dogs to stopping at intersections. There’s no reason it should be this hard to enforce ones around the coronavirus.

3 Flagler Residents Die of Covid, Raising Local Toll to 26; Health Department Expecting Rapid Tests Soon

September 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The rapid covid test the Flagler Health Department is expecting, from Abbott, looks like a credit card that's run through a small machine, providing results in minutes. (Abbott)

The latest Flagler County victims of covid-19 were 67, 73 and 77. There are 16 patients with a covid diagnosis at AdventHealth Palm Coast, though covid-related numbers have declined in Flagler schools, nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Despite $749 million Profit in Last Quarter, FPL Says No to Giving Covid-Strapped Customers a Break on Disconnections

September 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Covid-related compassion sunsets. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida Power & Light, Gulf Power, Duke Energy Florida and Tampa Electric Co. filed documents at the state Public Service Commission pushing back against a proposed emergency rule change that would halt disconnections for customers who can’t pay their bills.

Grinding Past “Mini-Surge,” Flagler Records Its 24th Covid Death as Florida Exceeds 700,000 Cases

September 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Flagler County continues to experience a significant number of infections, though totals have fallen for two successive weeks, down to 80 in the week ending Sept. 26, from 109 the previous week and 139 the week before that, with a little over 100 tests a day being administered on average.

A Real Vaccine Before the Election? It Would Take a Miracle.

September 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

First, inoculate against propaganda. (Jernej Furman)

There is a small chance that Pfizer’s vaccine trial will yield results by Nov. 3. But it could still take weeks for FDA review. Here’s everything that has to happen and how to tell a political stunt from a real vaccine.

DeSantis Lifts All Restrictions on Restaurants and Businesses and Prohibits Local Constraints

September 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 56 Comments

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DeSantis is decoupling for good the connection between science and public health on one hand and the economy on the other, opting exclusively for a focus on business measures in hopes of spurring consumer confidence. That confidence, however, continues to lag as individuals’ apprehensions continue to drive behavior.

Covid ‘Superspreader’ Night and Other Events at Social Club of Palm Coast Cause at Least 2 Deaths and Up to 50 Infections

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

superspreader social club palm coast

An August 28 singing night at the Social Club of Palm Coast on Old Kings Road, where people sang and socialized, many without masks or social distancing, triggered a rare covid-19 superspreader event whose toll in infections and deaths the Flagler Health Department is still tallying.

Unemployment Falls to 6.7% in Flagler and 7.4% in Florida; Government Jobs Account for a Fifth of Gain

September 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The number of people with jobs in Flagler increased to 43,000, up 2,200 from the previous month, but still more than 4,000 workers short of where the labor force stood a year ago, suggesting that thousands remain on the sidelines.

State Claims Inspectors Won’t Go Easy On Bars and Breweries That Violate Covid Rules

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Socially-distanced drinking. (Steven Miller)

The state on Monday began allowing bars and breweries to again serve alcohol for on-site consumption, after a similar attempt ended in June because of a lack of compliance with safety rules.

31 Test Positive At Grand Oaks Rehab; Flagler’s Covid Death Toll Up to 21 as Cases Spike Again to Near Peak

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

It's not improving. (© FlaglerLive)

Two more covid-related deaths were added to Flagler’s tally and a serious spike in cases at the Grand Oaks rahab and nursing home, in schools and at social clubs has resulted in a return of near-peak case loads for the county.

America Is About to Lose Its 200,000th Life to Coronavirus. How Many More Have to Die?

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

John Twohig's 'Walking Frame Available,' July 2020.

As a nation, we became inured to a national death toll that has only recently dropped below a thousand people a day. Think about that. Every week, we lose far more of our fellow citizens than died 19 years ago in the most devastating terrorist strike in American history.

Joe Mullins Fires Demeaning Personal Insults at Commissioners in a Meeting, Repeating ‘Dangerous’ Pattern

September 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 99 Comments

A flagler County Sheriff's deputy intervened as Commissioner Joe Mullins was insulting fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen, to the right of Mullins on the dais, Wednesday during a commission meeting. Mullins later wanted to lodge a complaint against a deputy even as he spoke from the dais about the importance of supporting law enforcement. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins called fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen a “fat sonofabitch” and Charlie Ericksen a “useless old man” at a meeting Wednesday just months after Ericksen had felt so threatened by Mullins that he called on Sheriff Staly for help.

Heroes

September 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel, left, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia health departments, and Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler Health Department, a branch of state government. (© FlaglerLive)

If Flagler County had a Nobel Prize, Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder and Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director there, would have won it this year for their management of the coronavirus pandemic, absurd claims against them notwithstanding.

FPC and Matanzas Face Off Sept. 18 on Gridiron as Fall Sports Return and Uncertainty Outnumbers Fans

September 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Friday night lights will return as FPC and Matanzas kick-off the weirdest football season of all next week, but with limited fans and other restrictions. (© FlaglerLive)

Attendance at FPC will be limited to 640 people in the stands, or about 13 percent of the stadium’s capacity of 5,000. No tickets will be sold at the gate, no interactions between fans and athletes will be allowed.

County Commission Meeting Turns Circus as Defiant Anti-Maskers Spread Falsehoods Before They’re Asked to Leave

September 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

A group of anti-mask militants was asked to leave the county commission meeting this morning unless its members wore mask. Some of them eventually addressed the commission, then were asked to leave the chamber. (© FlaglerLive)

A group of anti-mask militants held up the county commission meeting for 30 minutes today before addressing the panel in brews of misinformation, social media memes and alternative facts and calling for the removal of the Health Department’s Bob Snyder and Dr. Stephen Bickel. The commissioners explicitly rebuffed the militants in turn.

Flagler Sees 3 More Covid Deaths, New Spike in Cases and Hospitalizations; 14 Cases at Old Kings Elementary

September 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

There’s been 184 new cases in the last 14 days alone in Flagler, and 28 positive cases in the Flagler County school district through today since school reopened on Aug. 24, half of them at Old Kings Elementary, as a renewed spike has the local health department chief concerned.

America Doesn’t Have a Coherent Strategy for Asymptomatic Testing. It Needs One.

September 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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While it battles a virus that can spread quickly via silent carriers, the United States has yet to execute a strategy for testing asymptomatic people. This is a problem, especially as the CDC pushed guidelines that people without symptoms didn’t necessarily need to be tested.

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