
The latest omicron offshoot is particularly prevalent in India. 1.16, has been designated as a “variant under monitoring” by the World Health Organization. New covid variant: A new coronavirus subvariant, XBB. Here’s who should get the second covid booster and when. The latest on coronavirus boosters: The FDA cleared the way for people who are at least 65 or immune-compromised to receive a second updated booster shot for the coronavirus. Tracking covid cases, deaths: Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States last year with covid deaths dropping 47 percent between 20. Here’s what the end of the covid public health emergency means for you. "Florida has shown these lockdowns don't work.End of the public health emergency: The Biden administration ended the public health emergency for the coronavirus pandemic on May 11, just days after WHO said it would no longer classify the coronavirus pandemic as a public health emergency. "This country needs to move forward," he said. He also addressed the COVID-19 crisis, criticizing the supposed stringency of other state's lockdown measures. In addition, the Florida governor hopes to increase the monitoring of ballot drop boxes, as well as improve real-time reporting at voting precincts.

I think it creates a lot of hazards, a lot of problems." "We're not going to do mass mailing of ballots," DeSantis said. Critics have feared that the practice allows political operatives to tamper with votes, but proponents have said that it expands voting access to the elderly and disabled.ĭeSantis also wants to ensure the mail-in-ballots are sent only by request. "There's no state with more voting transparency than the state of Florida."įor a remedy, DeSantis intends to put an end to ballot harvesting –– the practice of allowing third parties to collect voters' ballots and turn them into polling stations en masse. "There's no state where your vote matters more than the state of Florida," DeSantis said.

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Obviously, he was a conservative icon up there with Scalia, Reagan, and Buckley."ĭeSantis also announced that he intends to strengthen Florida's electoral system by instituting a series of state-level policy changes, despite praising the fairness of 2020's election. The governor gushed, "He would have been great in radio even without the conservative thing. I was honored to be on his show a couple of times." "I was getting the tar kicked out of me every day and he had me on the week before the election in 2018," DeSantis said, "He didn't have a lot of guests. "What we do when there's things of this magnitude," DeSantis said, lamenting Limbaugh's death, "once the date of internment for Rush is announced, we're going to be lowering the flags to half-staff." The pronouncement was met with applause from a mostly maskless audience.ĭeSantis recounted on "Fox & Friends" on Thursday how Limbaugh had once asked him to appear on the show during a tough gubernatorial race.

Ron DeSantis announced on Friday at the Hilton Airport Palm Beach in West Palm Beach that he plans to lower flags at half-mast in honor of the now-deceased conservative radio titan Rush Limbaugh.Īccording to ABC's WTXL Tallahassee, flags across Florida have been ordered to be lowered when Limbaugh's funeral, the date of which has yet to publicly announced, occurs. Limbaugh, who died of lung cancer at age 70, left behind a $50 million estate in Palm Beach Florida and taped his show just one mile away.
