Florida Department of Health
July 19, 2020
Editor’s Note: We will continue to update this post when more information is received.
Nassau County Emergency Management:
As of 1130 today, DOH-Nassau has 63 new cases of novel Coronavirus to investigate.
Please wash your hands often and stay at least 6-8 feet away from anyone with whom you don’t already live.
This reflects a rising infection rate now at 12.3%, its time for us to take steps to protect the nearly 10,000 seniors who call Amelia Island home. My plan to address this “crisis” without closing the whole economy and creating job losses would be as follows – I believe this could be done in 45 days.
If it works and you are able to reduce the infection rates substantially then you have kept your economy open and been successful in protecting your seniors and you will know moving forward how to “tighten down” the perimeter” of the island for 45 days to ensure the success of everyone.
Just an idea – hopefully others have a plan, but with rising infection rates we need to move forward with a plan to address this crisis as our healthcare workers are now being affected. The strain on your healthcare system is not sustainable and we need to have some type of plan to address this problem that makes sense.
Looking at the graph of daily reports and then the date for this data, this looks like two days worth of results being reported simultaneously as one. As of today, Thursday the 23rd, it does look like mandatory masks are working and, except for Sunday, things are steadily trending down again albeit ever so slowly. Wear a mask!