Category: Health
FDOH provides list of nursing homes with COVID-19 cases
As of 10 a.m. today, Florida DOH reported Escambia County had 58 COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities and nine in Santa Rosa. Later today,…
Visit Pensacola study predicts frustration and division are ahead
Visit Pensacola has shared a report by its marketing partner, Showcase Pensacola, that is based on COVID-19-related industry research. “We want to share this with…
Covid-19 update – Mike Hill edition
Over the past 24 hours, Escambia County had 21 additional COVID-19 cases. Â Over the same period last weekend, the county only had nine new cases….
Fired union leader speaks out
From Mike Lowery, president of ATU Local 1395: As you reported on your blog. I was terminated at approximately 12:15 p.m. yesterday by Ed Spainhower,…
Escambia nursing homes have another death
Last night Florida DOH reported that Escambia had another COVID-19 death in one of its long-term care facilities, bringing total deaths in nursing homes to…
Seminole nursing home evacuated after three COVID-19 deaths
Read this post carefully, and you will notice several things. The Tampa Bay Times reports that a nursing home in Seminole is being shut down…
GEO Group gives details of Blackwater COVID-19 outbreak
By Ana Ceballos, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — A private prison company that operates a Northwest Florida facility where four inmates have died…
Santa Rosa has eight cases in one nursing home, not one
How accurate is the Florida Department of Health’s report on the COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities? According to the city of Gulf Breeze, the…
COVID-19: Friday noon report
Santa Rosa County has another COVID-19 death – bringing total to six. Escambia County is holding at four but hospitalizations have increased to 24. The…
Gulf Breeze nursing home has eight cases
The city of Gulf Breeze issued this announcement yesterday: As of April 16, the City of Gulf Breeze has nine active COVID-19 positive patients. This…
Statewide one in five COVID-19 deaths tied to LTCs
Note: Â Three of the four COVID-19 deaths in Escambia County have been tied to nursing homes. Â However, the county SitReps should the EOC didn’t begin…
We’re baaaaaaack
We have so much to share: Santa Rosa County had its fifth COVID-19 fatality yesterday. County Administrator Janice Gilley has told commissioners that she plans…
Who protects our senior citizens?
Southern Oaks Fallout Inweekly’s report on the COVID-19 virus in local nursing homes has been picked up and amplified by other local media. WEAR TV…
Last post for Wednesday, April 15
Inweekly has received notes from people who have loved ones in local nursing homes. The facilities we named today aren’t the only ones with residents…
Breaking news: Southern Oaks is the COVID-19 infected nursing home in SitRep
Through a public record request submitted by our attorney Eric Stevenson, Inweekly has learned the infected nursing home reported in the SitReps for April 3-6…
What I learned after reading 38 SitReps
Inweekly requested every SitRep (situation report) created by the Escambia Emergency Operations Center since it was activated on March 17–a total of 38 reports. The…
Inweekly isn’t the only newspaper fighting to identify infected nursing homes
Escambia County cases in long-term care facilities continue to grow – now 43, up 4 since last night. Â The LTC Â cases make half of…
COVID-19: What’s happening around the state
Nursing Home Visitation Ban The News Service of Florida: Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration was caught by surprise Tuesday to learn that a 30-day executive order…
COVID-19: What you need to know Weds. morning
Escambia County now has 48 positive COVID-19 cases among residents and staff at local long-term care facilities – up 40 from last Tuesday, April 7….
COVID-19: Last Tuesday report
Escambia County had its fourth death today – one of 47Â people who died since 11 a.m. Â in Broward, Dade, Duval, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Orange, Palm…
