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Guidelines Issued on Reopening Nursing Homes to Visitors

May 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The federal government on Monday released guidelines states could follow to reopen long-term care facilities to visitors.

Flagler Beach Cancels July 4 Parade and Fireworks, Palm Coast Does Likewise in Latest Covid Casualties

May 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

No way to social distance: Flagler Beach will not host its traditional parade and fireworks on July 4 this year. (© FlaglerLive)

For the first time in 22 years, Flagler Beach will not hold its traditional July 4 parade and fireworks, nor will Palm Coast hold its own Independence Day festivities, which would have normally taken place in Central Park on July 3.

Food Drops Are Not Enough. Expand Food Stamps Programs Now.

May 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

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Big food drops like Palm Coast’s effort to feed 5,000 families are fine, but only an expanded SNAP (or food stamps) program can reach all families in need with an existing system that also acts as an economic stimulus for local business.

AdventHealth Acknowledges 25,000 Covid-19 Tests Were Unreliable, Putting Recent Results In Doubt

May 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

The Covid-19 testing site at Daytona State College's Palm Coast campus first operated under the county's umbrella, above, then was taken over by AdventHealth Palm Coast in cooperation with the county and other partners, before being again turned back to the county starting next week. (Flagler County)

AdventHealth blamed the unreliability of some 25,000 tests, including over 1,000 provided in Palm Coast, on Orlando-based MicroGenDX, a company that won emergency FDA approval to provide spit tests on the promise of accuracy and quick turn-arounds.

Gyms Reopen Monday at 50% Capacity, Restaurants and Shops Expand to 50%, Theaters Remain Dark

May 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Gyms may pump it up again. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis today announced what he described as a “full Phase 1” reopening of society and the economy even as the state recorded more than 40 deaths from Covid-19 for the fourth straight day, and an average of 600 daily infections in the past two weeks.

Fact Check: GOP’s McConnell Falsely Claims Obama Team Never left a ‘Game Plan’ For Pandemics

May 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell falsely claimed that the Obama administration didn’t leave a plan behind on handling pandemics. In fact, it left a detailed plan, including how to confront a novel coronavirus.

The Real Reason Trump Wants to Reopen the Economy

May 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

President Trump and Melania Trump at the World War II Memorial in Washington earlier this week. A fifth as many Americans have died in three months of the coronavirus emergency as did in four years of World War II. (White House)

Donald Trump is trying to force the economy to reopen to boost his electoral chances, and he’s selling out Americans’ health to seal the deal, argues Robert Reich.

Mask-Wearing Is Not About Personal Liberty but Communal Health, Palm Coast Town Hall Experts Say

May 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 77 Comments

If society is to effectively stave off resurgences of Covid-19 infections, masks are not an option but a universal necessity, experts say.

Is wearing a mask in public too much to ask for as Palm Coast and Flagler reopen? Does it infringe on individuals’ liberties? Two physicians, the Flagler Health Department’s chief and Palm Coast’s fire chief give an unequivocal No.

Florida Students Seek Tuition Refunds in Class-Action Lawsuits Filed Against All 12 State Universities

May 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The University of Florida campus in Gainesville last month. (Facebook)

The University of Florida quickly made plans to issue prorated refunds of housing and dining payments once the coronavirus emergency closed campuses. But the lawsuits contend it and the broader university system should have gone further in refunding money.

Florida Adds Covid-19 Into Its Hurricane Preparations

May 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The special needs shelter at Rymfire Elementary school in Palm Coast ahead of Hurricane Irma in 2017. IOt'll have to be reconfigured, should it be needed, to accommodate for the precautions over Covid-19. (© FlaglerLive)

Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz said last week his agency is redeveloping plans about evacuations and shelters, while also adding facemasks to the state’s stockpile of storm supplies.

The Bailout Is Working — For the Rich

May 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The S&P 500 is now up 30% from its lows in mid-March and back to where it was last October, when the outlook for 2020 corporate earnings looked sunshiny. Companies have sold record amounts of debt in recent weeks for investment-grade companies. Junk bonds, historically dodgy during an economic swoon, have roared back. (© FlaglerLive)

The economy is in free fall but Wall Street is thriving, and stocks of big private equity firms are soaring dramatically higher. That tells you who investors think is the real beneficiary of the federal government’s massive rescue efforts.

Palm Coast’s Grand Oaks Rehab Rejects Health Department’s Testing of Patients and Staff, Then Relents

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

The Flagler Health Department's strike team, including members of the National Guard, at Market Street, the memory care facility in Palm Coast, today. The team conducted some 100 Covid-19 tests of residents and staff there. (© FlaglerLive)

After its corporate office overrode local resistance, Grand Oaks Rehab in Palm Coast agreed to have its 100 patients and 100 staff members tested for Covid-19 next week. The Flagler Health Department’s strike teams conducted 200 tests today at two other large nursing home facilities.

Florida’s Hair and Nail Salons and Barber Shops Reopen Monday, But Guidelines Are Scant

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

What used to be: a barber shop in Tampa in 1920. (William Arthur Fishbaugh, Florida Memory)

The reopening will follow what the governor called “enhanced safety protocols,” but the governor and state agencies had not issued guidelines for hair salons and barber shops as of Friday.

How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

An exhibition of tree trunks from Ghana, drawing attention to worldwide deforestation, at the Natural History Museum, Oxford. (Diana Jeater)

A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,” one scientist said.

Economy Loses 20.5 Million Jobs in April, Unemployment Rate at 14.7%, Worst Since 1939

May 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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The April figures are an undercount, as they represent only a partial survey of actual job losses in April. Those losses are closer to 30 million or more, according to the cumulative total of first-time unemployment claims filed over the past few weeks.

Flagler Health Officials Pledge to Keep Up Covid Testing as AdventHealth Phases Out Drive-Up Sites

May 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

A nurse with the Florida Department of Health explains the process of specimen collection to a nursing home resident in northeast Florida last week. The Flagler Health Department has deployed strike teams to 71 local assisted living facilities and nursing homes to examine compliance with Covid-19 recommendations and provide material support where needed. On Friday, the department will conduct 300 Covid-19 tests of local facilities' residents and staff. (Michael Baltz)

There is some confusion about how much testing should take place–2 percent of the population per month or overall–and whether it will be available to the extent recommended as society reopens. The guideline from the federal government of testing 2 percent is a monthly goal, not an overall goal.

DeSantis Is Right on Cautious Reopening, Wrong on Models

May 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at last week's announcement on reopening.

Gov. Ron DeSantis took a wisely cautious approach on reopening, but his caution contrasted with his ridicule of models that predicted grim outcomes for Florida in March. His criticism reflects a simplistic misunderstanding of models’ purpose, especially when they have their intended effect: to minimize loss of life.

A Woman Disputing Social Distancing Rules at Local Clinic Clashes With Cop and Faces Felony Charges

May 6, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Claudia Avello Munzo after she was placed in a patrol car. (FCSO)

It was an incident out of Covid-19’s unwritten playbook, escalating from a simple social-distancing request at the Florida Health Care Plans office off Palm Coast Parkway to a scuffle, a woman’s arrest and felony charges and an injury to a Flagler County Sheriff’s sergeant.

Flagler’s Covid-19 Deaths Rise to 4 But New Positive Cases Slow as Broader-Criteria Testing Increases

May 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The last six weeks of testing and positive cases in Flagler County.

Flagler’s deaths add to a statewide tally approaching 1,500 as one of the models most closely watched by state and federal officials revised significantly upward its estimate of deaths for Florida now that the state has begun reopening.

At Gargantuan Feed Palm Coast Food Drop, Tears, Solidarity, and the Reality About Those ‘Late-Model Cars’

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

No government, no military contingent, no church or any other private organization had ever attempted what Palm Coast government and Parkview Church did Saturday: the distribution of 5,000 boxes packed with a week’s worth of groceries, and thousands of additional boxes of snacks and Easter candy, for families that streamed through the two drop locations.

Palm Coast Reopens a Few Passive Parks and Trails Monday as Flagler Beach Weighs Limited Pier Access

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The Pier's pilgrims await progress on reopening. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast and Flagler Beach governments are reopening a few of their more passive parks, trails and other outdoor amenities Monday while keeping major parks closed and maintaining a strict focus on safety and social distancing.

Hair Salons, Barber Shops, Bars, Gyms and Theaters Will Remain Closed for Now

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Epic loneliness. (© FlaglerLive)

The governor said more consideration of employee and customer safety is needed before he can give the go-ahead for salons and barber shops to turn on the lights again.

Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Coronavirus Antibody Test Results

May 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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There are questions about how accurate antibody tests are. And even with a very good test, it’s possible to test positive for antibodies even when you don’t actually have them. Watch this video to learn why.

Florida Regulators Issue Permissive Rules for Restaurants In Reopening Steps

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Brown Dog in Palm Coast's St. Joe Plaza this afternoon. It will use its porch to take advantage of outdoor dining. (© FlaglerLive)

Servers and other employees won’t be counted toward limits on occupancy when restaurants reopen Monday under coronavirus guidelines, the state’s top business regulator said.

Palm Coast Plan Will Allow Restaurant Use of Sidewalks and Parking Lots For Less Restricted Outdoor Seating

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Taking a creative approach that lessens the emphasis on code rules while maintaining an emphasis on public health, Palm Coast wants to see many signs like this reviving its restaurant sector starting Monday. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast government is devising a plan that, in its broad outlines issued late this afternoon, would significantly relax rules on restaurant use of sidewalks and even parking lots, enabling restaurants to place tables there and compensate for the loss of business they would otherwise continue to suffer if they were limited to the 25 percent rule.

Saturday in Flagler: 3 Massive Food Drops at 4 Locations In Unprecedented Reflection of Aid and Hardship

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Thousands of families will line up in cars for food distributions at Palm Coast City Hall, Parkview Church, on Education Way off U.S. 1 and at Wickline Center in Flagler Beach in a day of aid reflecting the crushing needs provoked by the coronavirus emergency.

Graduates, Start Your Engines: FPC and Matanzas Will Have In-Person Graduation at the Speedway on May 31

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The plan is for Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast Graduates to drive their cars across the finish line in a graduate ceremony at the International Speedway on May 31. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School will hold their graduation ceremonies on May 31 at the International Speedway in Daytona Beach following a committee’s work on devising an original plan to ensure a safe, in-person event despite the coronavirus emergency.

Brave New Covid World at AdventHealth: Your Car as Waiting Room, Phone Check-Ins, Mandatory Tests and Masks

April 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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AdventHealth physicians outlined how the system’s hospitals, including AdventHealth Palm Coast, will operate from here on, with significantly new procedures for patients, visitors, staff and physicians and a heavy emphasis on technology, social distancing and the isolation of anything Covid-19, including air.

More than a Fifth of Americans Unemployed as 1st Time Claims Keep Surging and Checks Keep Lagging

April 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The total number of first-time claims filed in Florida since the start of the coronavirus emergency totals 1.6 million in a civilian labor force of 10.5 million, placing the state’s unemployment rate at over 15 percent.

Restaurants Can Reopen at 25% Capacity, Many Restrictions Will Remain as Florida Moves to Reopening on Monday

April 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 33 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at today's news conference.

Citing Florida as weathering the coronavirus crisis much better than many other states, especially those hardest hit, Gov. Ron DeSantis today said the state will begin reopening starting on May 4, except for three South Florida counties. But many existing restrictions will remain in effect.

Reality Check: What Antibody Studies Can Tell You — and More Importantly, What They Can’t

April 29, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Coronavirus antibody studies and what they allegedly show have triggered fierce debates, further confusing public understanding, especially about fallacies about herd immunity. Here is some clarity and fact-checking around these crucial surveys.

With $57,000 Raised and Tons of Food Boxed, Plan to Feed 5,000 Families Turns Palm Coast City Hall Into Relief Central

April 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Some 1,200 booxes, each with a week's worth of groceries for a family of four, are warehoused on the first floor of City Hall, in preparation of the food drop on May 2. The city's Tyler Jarnagin is by the door. (© FlaglerLive)

Feed Palm Coast has turned City Hall into a warehouse for a massive food aid operation relying on city staffers, volunteers and the donations of residents to feed 5,000 families with a week’s worth of groceries come May 2.

2 Staffers at 2 Assisted Living Facilites in Palm Coast Test Positive as Local Covid Cases Rise; Antibody Tests On the Way

April 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Flagler’s Covid-19 cases now total 127, two of them at assisted living facilities, as local officials caution against a too-swift relaxation of precautions or too high hopes on antibody testing on its way. The testing will be focused on health workers.

Rumor Control is Critical and Time-Consuming for States, With No Help From Trump or His Likes

April 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

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In addition to battling the coronavirus, states and localities are spending time and increased effort batting down rumors and myths — everything from President Donald Trump’s suggestion last week that injecting poisonous disinfectants might help to rumors that National Guard troops are enforcing stay-at-home orders at gunpoint.

How Many Deaths Can We Live With?

April 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There was no hesitation in sending them to their death so others could live: the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, in Normandy. (© FlaglerLive)

The coronavirus emergency is raising ethical questions as communities reopen: how many deaths are we willing to live with, and whose deaths? The questions are at the heart of the debate on reopening, but are not being confronted honestly.

Anti-Vaccine Activists Latch Onto Coronavirus To Bolster Their Movement

April 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Conspiracy theorists and anti-vax activists generally run in, or are, the same circles. (Fibonacci Blue)

While most of the world hungers for a vaccine to put an end to the death and economic destruction wrought by COVID-19, some anti-vaccine groups are joining with anti-lockdown protesters to challenge restrictions aimed at protecting public health.

Flagler Beach and County Reopen Beaches 24 Hours Sunday Morning, Maintaining Limits on Activities

April 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 43 Comments

Nancy Rivero of Palm Coast earlier this week, the first morning the beaches reopened. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County and Flagler Beach have agreed to reopen all 18 miles of beach in the county 24 hours starting Sunday at 7 a.m., while maintaining restrictions only on certain activities on the beach: “for leisure, no, for exercise, yes,” as Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney put it this afternoon.

In Flagler Beach, a Few Dozen Demonstrators Rally for Trump, Leaving Reopening ‘Amerika’ To an Afterthought

April 25, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Some 35 to 40 people stretched along State Road A1A in Flagler Beach this morning in what had been dubbed as a reopen-the-economy rally, but proved to be mostly a campaign rally for President Trump.

Reopening Palm Coast: City Issues Cautious Plan Stretched Over Four Seasons, With Some Permanent Changes

April 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 134 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland, right, with City Manager Matt Morton, center, and Fire Chief Jerry Forte at this afternoon's briefing on the city's phased plan for resuming activities in the city. (© FlaglerLive via Palm Coast's YouTube Channel)

Palm Coast government today issued a recovery plan that anticipates a three-phased reopening of the city and its economy over the next year, cautiously, gradually resuming mostly normal activities while permanently maintaining new norms such as the wearing of masks in public and re-configuring certain interactions.

Confirmed Flagler Covid-19 Increase By 28 in One Day, to 106, But Local Hospitalizations Still ‘Stable’

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Third year medical student Casey Kelly, who attends the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, getting tested at the Palm Coast campus of Daytona State College last week, a testing location run by Flagler Emergency Management and the Flagler Health Department. (Flagler County)

Flagler County added 28 confirmed Covid-19 cases in a single day today, by far the largest single-day tally of new cases, for a total of 106. But there does not appear to be an equivalent increase in hospitalizations.

Local Religious Leaders Adapt Congregations to Coronavirus, and Answer the Question: How Does God Allow It?

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

First United Methodist Church in Palm Coast. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s religious leaders are trying to keep worshipers connected while most everyone is sheltered-in-place, and wrestling with the theological question of how a deity could allow a pandemic like Covid-19 to so ravage its creation.

Florida Jobless Claims Nearly Triple to Over Half a Million in a Week, U.S. Unemployment Over 16%

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Upward of 11 percent of Florida's workforce has filed for unemployment, though the actual figure is likely much higher. (© FlaglerLive)

More than one in 10 new jobless claims–505,137 first-time applications of the 4.4 million new claims–across the United States last week were made to Florida’s overwhelmed unemployment system.

Verdego Garden Center, Palm Coast Government, School Board and County Mobilize for Local Food Aid

April 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Verdego Marketing Director Allynne Jones, right, and Garden Center Manager Carrie Stewart are among the many Verdego employees behind the company's unique effort that will result in the donation of all revenue this week, from Wednesday through Saturday, to Grace Community Food Pantry. (Verdego for FlaglerLive)

Verdego Garden Center’s effort, unique for its scope and generosity among local businesses, is part of a larger effort by private and charitable organizations and local governments, including a $30,000 drive by Palm Coast, to distribute or collect food and cash for community pantries and address growing needs for food among local families.

As Flagler’s Beaches Reopen for 3 Hours, Thumbs Up, Sighs of Relief, Sun Worship and More Caution

April 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Beach activity was very sparse this morning as beaches reopened for three hours, for the first time in 30 days. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach and Palm Coast residents reacted with glee and gratefulness this morning as they walked the beaches again, but in surprisingly small numbers, while city officials continue to caution against a still-prevalent viral threat.

“We’re Not Opening Up The County,” Commission Chairman Cautions as Beaches Partially Reopen

April 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Morning hours everywhere, evejing hours only in unincorporated Flagler beaches. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County Commission and Flagler Beach reopened their beaches partially starting Wednesday, but officials’ cautions against a premature, broader reopening are not all on the same page.

Consumer Confidence and Businesses Aggressively Implementing Safety Measures Will be Key to Rebound

April 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Now showing. (Dan Gaken)

Getting people to dine out, board airplanes and visit resorts will require increased confidence that businesses are aggressively implementing enhanced hygiene measures to reduce the spread of Covid-19, members of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ task force on reopening the state said Tuesday.

AdventHealth Adds Third Drive-Up Covid-19 Testing Site

April 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Army Sgt. Quran Williams of the New Jersey National Guard administers a "fit test" to a staff member at the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus in Paramus, N.J., April 16, 2020. The test of the N95 mask was conducted by using a sodium saccharin scent; staff members ensured they could not smell the scent through the mask when worn properly. (Zachary Vucic)

The Sanford testing site joins sites at the Daytona International Speedway and at the Mall at Millenia in Orlando. Each site’s hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Orlando site will also be open this weekend from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

American Carnage: How Donald Trump Is Killing Us

April 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 121 Comments

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Triumph of Death" (1562). Trump Covid-19

The coronavirus has mutated into ideological variants. We are moving from a natural disaster to a man-made one, from statistically unavoidable deaths to deaths willed by indifference, ignorance, selfishness, and the political calculations of a single man. The consequences will compound rather than mitigate the pandemic.

Florida Task Force Looks for Answers on Reviving Economy and Making Testing More Widespread

April 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Major Florida industry leaders and government officials will spend a week developing ideas on re-starting the state's economy. (© FlaglerLive)

The push to get businesses back open comes as public-health experts have warned social distancing restrictions should not be lifted until the numbers of new infections have slowed or stopped and there is widespread immunity.

County Falsely Claims Testing Increased ‘Significantly,’ But Positive Cases Have, to 75–And County Must Send Back 650 Junk Test Kits

April 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Flagler County's testing trend mirrors the nation's, which has also plateaued in the past two weeks after rising for days before that. Source: Florida Health Department. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County government issued false and misleading figures Friday regarding a surge in testing that never took place, and 650 kits that could have enabled a surge must be sent back because they’re flawed, officials now say.

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