Florida governor believes coronavirus was circulating during Super Bowl in Miami

ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a news conference Tuesday that he believes COVID-19, the novel coronavirus responsible for the current global pandemic, was circulating in the state during this year’s Super Bowl game, which was held in South Florida, the area of the Sunshine State with the most positive cases of the virus.

Super Bowl LIV was held Feb. 2 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, but it wasn’t until about one month later, on March 1, that the governor announced Florida’s first positive cases of COVID-19.

According to the Sun Sentinel, attendance at Hard Rock Stadium for Super Bowl LIV was just over 62,000.

The governor said Tuesday that he believes there were already cases of the virus present in the Sunshine State but that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s criteria for testing at that time would not have allowed Floridians to be tested unless they had recently visited certain areas of China, where the virus was first reported last year.

The 2000 Presidential Election and the botched attempt by the Dems to steal the recount.

I also recall Freepers were really divided about Katherine Harris when she ran for the Senate in 2006. There was a lot of vitriol passed back and forth on this forum.

As I’ve said in some other posts, I’ve been tracking COVID stats for well over a month now and building spread sheets using stats from all over the world, the most authoritative of which are from South Korea (primarily because of their aggressive, mandatory testing).

One thing that caught my attention early on were CDC statistics. From January 21st until sometime in early March, CDC tracked cases (COVID-positive tests), and source of exposure (either foreign travel-related or close contact/direct exposure), as well as “under investigation,” i.e., positive cases in which the source of exposure could not be identified. As of early March, in 384,944 (97.5%) of 395,011 positive cases, the source of exposure could not be identified. That number varied from ~93% to the current 97.5% until CDC stopped publishing those statistics and added the following: “CDC is no longer reporting the number of persons under investigation (PUIs) that have been tested, as well as PUIs that have tested negative. Now that states are testing and reporting their own results, CDC’s numbers are not representative of all testing being done nationwide.” Unlike South Korea, CDC has never published the number of tests administered.

While I’ve thought for months that COVID has been here since the Nov/Dec timeframe, does anyone else see the above as a bit odd for an organization that supposedly monitors public health?

Was there an increase in people hospitalized with unknown breathing problems? None of these “early infection” stories cite increased hospitalizations making it seem like the early COVID was a less dangerous variant.

Before the panic ensued, people were dealing with their illnesses as a typical flu/cold or other common respiratory illnesses and not running to the hospital to get tested for COVID. They may have gone to the hospital with breathing issues, been tested for flu and found negative and got treated generally as ILI (influenza-like illness).

My drift (bad pun)was the Elian Gonzalez thing. His father, whom was active in his upbringing despite the parents’ divorce, didn’t know about the boat escape to FL. I believe there was no moral recourse but to return Elian to his dad. Though many of us despised Reno, the way the Cuban relatives were acting made some sort of rescue a certainty. I’ll be damned if there is much I agree on with liberals, but the father and son relationship trumped everything.

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