A shipment of one million N95 masks to Miami-Dade County firefighters was confiscated by the federal government last week, top Miami-Dade officials say. The county is the epicenter of Florida's COVID-19 crisis. (WLRN)
The move came just as county firefighters ramped up a program to begin at-home COVID-19 testing for Miami-Dade residents who are homebound and cannot make it to drive-thru testing sites.
A total of 240 deaths related to COVID-19 have happened in Miami-Dade, out of a statewide total of 893. In one highly publicized incident, personal protective equipment destined for Massachusetts was repeatedly seized by the federal government. To work around the seizures, Gov. Charlie Bakerwith the New England Patriots, which sent a plane to China to pick up materials and brought them back to the state.
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