TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Health officials in Florida are deploying three field hospitals across the state to help combat the new coronavirus.
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Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz said Tuesday night via email that one field hospital is currently staged in Orlando, and the others are being sent to Broward County and Ocala.
This comes as the number of people infected with COVID-19 rose by nearly half to 314 cases with six deaths reported in Florida.
And while some beaches are closed, Clearwater Beach was on packed Wednesday. One mother of two sons there called it “a great festering Petri dish.”
