{"id":11218,"date":"2020-06-19T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/florida-gov-blames-coronavirus-rise-on-overwhelmingly-hispanic-workers\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:36:00","slug":"florida-gov-blames-coronavirus-rise-on-overwhelmingly-hispanic-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/florida-gov-blames-coronavirus-rise-on-overwhelmingly-hispanic-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Florida Gov. blames coronavirus rise on \u2018overwhelmingly Hispanic\u2019 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Florida Gov. blames coronavirus rise on \u2018overwhelmingly Hispanic\u2019 workers<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 19, 2020 |<\/span> 7:36am <\/p>\n

\n Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed to clusters of \u201coverwhelmingly Hispanic\u201d day laborers and agriculture workers for driving the state\u2019s recent coronavirus spike \u2014 but farmworkers and industry associations argue that resources and testing came too late to those communities, according to new reports.<\/p>\n

The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday that cramped living and working conditions for migrant workers and Hispanic construction workers are partly to blame, according to WFOR-TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of these guys go to work in a school bus, and they are all just packed there like sardines, going across Palm Beach County or some of these other places, and there\u2019s all these opportunities to have transmission,\u201d DeSantis said during a press conference in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n

He pointed to cases in migrant camps, a watermelon farm and Immokalee, a major hub for tomato production, as evidence of the uptick.<\/p>\n

But Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried argued that the majority of farmworkers left several weeks ago after harvests ended and that the real uptick is in non-agricultural areas, according to The Miami Herald.<\/p>\n

In addition, Antonio Tovar, executive director of the Farmworker Association of Florida, said it\u2019s not the farmworkers\u2019 fault they are vulnerable to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

He pointed the finger at DeSantis for ignoring pleas from a coalition of 50 groups that asked him for aid in late April.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sent this letter to the governor more than two months ago and now he is realizing that foreign workers are more suitable to get infected,\u201d Tovar told The News<\/a> Service of Florida Wednesday. \u201cThat is very shameful because he was advised, he was told when we sent the letter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tovar claimed that the resources only came in May, after many in the Southwest Florida farming community had already become ill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is too little too late,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was about two weeks ago when the department (DOH) sent an email to a lot of organizations saying, \u2018Hey! We received 2 million face masks. If you want we can give you face masks.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

But DeSantis\u2019 spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferre argued the governor long ago placed a focus on the agriculture community as a high-risk location.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor months, Governor DeSantis has been speaking about the importance of proactively testing in areas of high risk, such as agriculture areas where migrant\/farm workers tend to live and travel<\/a> in confined spaces that are conducive to the spread of this disease,\u201d she said in a Wednesday email to WFOR-TV.<\/p>\n

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Florida on Thursday reported the largest single-day spike in coronavirus cases since the pandemic started.<\/p>\n

The number of new infections in the Sunshine State soared to 3,207 \u2014 dwarfing its own previous highest single-day increase of 2,783 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The record-high illness rate comes as some parts of the state report zero available ICU beds, and as scientists predict Florida has \u201call the markings\u201d to become the new epicenter for the pandemic.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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