Florida has 8,935 COVID-19 cases – 18.3% positivity rate. Â The state set a single-day record for deaths with 120. Escambia had 144 new COVID cases -Â 126 are Florida residents, four are associated…
Category: Health
The Big Back-to-School Experiment
“We expect you to be serious when you make that choice. You’ll be locked in.†– Superintendent Malcolm Thomas by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The upcoming school year will be unlike any before…
Escambia COVID Buzz
At 4:23 p.m. yesterday, Escambia County launched an “enhanced” COVID-19 dashboard – webpage the counties and cities, including the city of Pensacola, have published for months. The dashboard comes seven days after…
Escambia County government: 8 more positives, 12 more waiting results
Escambia County government reports eight more employees have tested positive – new total 43, up 23% from yesterday. Another 12 are awaiting test results – new total 90, up 15%. Corrections has…
COVID: Escambia had sixth 100+ case day in July
Florida has added 9,989 more cases – 14.1% positivity for July 7. Total: 223,783. Escambia County has 129 new cases – 115 are Florida residents, one is associated with nursing homes, one…
COVID: Escambia staff update
Escambia County has now added, as of 6 p.m. yesterday, to its daily COVID update that status of each department. “It has been requested to provide our daily COVID employee data. This…
COVID: County HR director, Animal Shelter have it
“I do not want anyone to panic…” – Jana Still, HR director Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley is trying to keep the lid on the boiling pot of COVID among her employees….
Rate of new COVID cases
On April 22, Escambia County had 377 Florida residents that had tested positive. It took 50 days for the county to double that number: 761 on June 11. By then bars, gyms,…
Rebekah Jones: Escambia, Santa Rosa don’t meet reopen criteria
Rebekah Jones was part of the Florida Department of Health (DOH) team running the state’s official coronavirus dashboard but was fired for, in her words, refusing to manipulate data, while DeSantis said…
COVID status of each Escambia department, 7/2/2020
On Thursday, June 2, the Escambia Board of County Commissioners were briefed by County Administrator Janice Gilley and her leadership team on the COVID-19 pandemic. According to public records received by Inweekly…
COVID: How safe is your neighborhood?
Inweekly has tracked the COVID-19 cases by zip code for the first six days of July. The five most infected areas are: 32514 – UWF/Ferry Pass: 476 cases, 178 in July 32526…
Escambia outbreak worse than Chicago, Seattle and D.C.
Florida has 7,347 more COVID cases with a positivity rate of 16.1% for July 6. Escambia County has 117 new cases – 93 are Florida residents, nine are associated with nursing homes,…