https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200...ch-county-to-56


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Noting that Florida has 18,000 available hospital beds out of 55,000 overall and 1,700 of 5,600 ICU beds available, [Florida governor] DeSantis said state officials are looking for optional facilities that could be used to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.

Some ideas could be vacant medical facilities, convention centers and even hotels that would be used to separate people who test positive to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Across the country, emergency workers are taking over local fairgrounds.

“We want a space where positive cases can be self-isolated in a way that they’re not going to infect other people,″ he said about the hotel plan.

“If somebody comes in and tests positive and you send them back home they are likely to infect people they’ve come in close contact within their home and then the virus continues to spread,″ he said. “If they have a place to self-isolate where they’re not going to be in close contact with anybody then the virus dies with them.”

Statewide, about 60 percent of the confirmed cases are in men, 40 percent in women.
The trend is more pronounced in Palm Beach County, with 68 percent men among those testing positive.

DeSantis closed all beaches on Friday, along with other entertainment venues — a move modeled after, but not as extensive as, closures ordered Thursday in hard-hit Miami-Dade County.



Palm Beach County has a population just under 1.5 million.

I think using hotels is a great idea, to comfortably isolate people and stop the chain of infection.



At present, 768 infections total reported in FL.
56 in Palm Beach County.
164 in Broward.
169 in Dade.

Just over half the cases in these South Florida counties alone.