Florida resident dies in Rep. Matt Gaetz’s district days after he wore gas mask on House floor
late Friday that two residents had died of the disease, pushing the U.S. death toll to 17 as of that night.
In addition to the patient in Santa Rosa who had recently traveled internationally, the second coronavirus-related death was a Lee County resident in their 70s who had recently traveled abroad.Florida health officials additionally reported two new presumptive positive coronavirus cases, both in Broward County. One is a 75-year-old male and the other a 65-year-old male, according to the health department. Both are in isolation.
Rep. Bobby L. Rush , one of the most senior House members, rebuked the 37-year-old congressman for his Wednesday display of the over-the-top gas mask. Rush said via Twitter that Gaetz was “making light of an epidemic that has killed 14 Americans.” He contrasted how the congressman’s behavior went unchecked to
when he wore a hoodie to protest racial profiling in the wake of the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida.In 2012, I wore a hoodie on the House Floor to make a statement about the deadly consequences of racial profiling. On Wednesday,Guess which one of us was forcibly removed.
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