The number of Florida residents who have died from COVID-19 has climbed above 87,500, according to data released Friday by the Florida Department of Health.
As of Thursday, 87,585 resident deaths had been reported since the pandemic started in 2020.
That was an increase of 444 deaths from a report released two weeks earlier.
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Because of lags in reporting, it is unclear when the additional deaths occurred.
The new data also showed that numbers of newly reported cases remain relatively low.
The state had 9.232 reported cases from March 24 to Thursday, with the total remaining below 10,000 cases for the fourth straight week.
On Jan. 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations on May 11, 2023, related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
These emergency declarations have been in place since early 2020, and gave the federal government flexibility to waive or modify certain requirements in a range of areas, including in the Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs, and in private health insurance, as well as to allow for the authorization of medical countermeasures and to provide liability immunity to providers who administer services, among other things.
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In addition, Congress also enacted legislation—including the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act , the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA)—that provided additional flexibilities tied to one or more of these emergency declarations, and as such they too are scheduled to expire when (or at a specified time after) the emergency period(s) expires.
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