Category: Governor
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Miami-Dade was oblivious to FDA warning when it signed giant COVID testing contract with Curative
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
When the administration of Miami Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava signed a multimillion dollar no-bid contract with a COVID-19 testing company in late January, the mayor’s spokeswoman says nobody there knew about a well-publicized FDA alert issued weeks earlier warning of the risk of false negative results with the company’s tests. -
Judges sic ethics hounds on ‘Grim Reaper’ lawyer who trolled DeSantis’s open-beaches policy amid pandemic
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A story that began with a lawyer dressed as the Grim Reaper roaming Florida beaches has developed into something really weird and threatening. -
DeSantis ally Strum reels in sweet deal to run Broward Health with contract finessed by his lawyers
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Shane Strum, the governor’s chief of staff, will become chief executive of Broward Health later this month with a handcrafted three-year contract worth $1.3 million annually, despite having no hands-on experience running a hospital. -
Florida IG’s report on Broward Health: five years late, questioning its own value
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Five years after promising a sweeping review of scandal-plagued Broward Health’s contracts, Florida’s Chief Inspector General has released a scaled-back report that recounts the district’s seamy past while failing to mention its most politically explosive contract. -
Publix: Where political giving to DeSantis helped get no-bid COVID vaccine business
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
By partnering with Publix to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to senior citizens, Gov. Ron DeSantis handed the Lakeland-based grocery chain a lucrative new business that has charged millions of dollars to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers. -
Florida defies FDA warning on controversial COVID test with off-label use, but Miami-Dade reconsiders
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida is dismissing a recent warning from federal regulators about the accuracy of a popular COVID-19 test from one of the state’s largest testing providers — and continuing to use the test in a way the FDA has advised against.
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