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Coronavirus field hospital at Tamiami Park is ready for 250+ patients
Read full article: Coronavirus field hospital at Tamiami Park is ready for 250+ patientsMIAMI – Miami-Dade County Fair & Exposition tents went up just in time for the coronavirus pandemic. A tent that was once designed for livestock was turned into the temporary kitchen for a 252-bed field hospital at Tamiami Park. The field hospital will not be open to the public. Only out-of-capacity hospitals will be able to refer the patient to the field hospital. Rep. Anthony Rodriguez said Emergency Disaster Services, a company based in Kentucky, is under contract to build and run the field hospital.
Miami-Dade mayor on coronavirus prevention: ‘No need to cancel major events’
Read full article: Miami-Dade mayor on coronavirus prevention: ‘No need to cancel major events’MIAMI – As the death toll of the coronavirus climbed to nine on Tuesday, Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez said there is no need to cancel any public events in Miami-Dade County. There is also a lot of community centers where the elderly congregate.”Gimenez said Miami-Dade County is taking precautionary measures. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s Surgeon General Scott Rivkees about whether or not there was a need to cancel large public events in Miami-Dade County. More than 92,000 people, most of them in mainland China, have been diagnosed with the virus and about 3,160 have died. The World Health Organization reported 79 died in Italy, 77 in Iran and 28 died in South Korea.