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All,

As a professor in Gainesville in health sciences and also a healthcare professional I keep a close eye on the COVID-19 numbers in our area. Like you all I’m sure, I was well aware our numbers would increase once students arrived back into town. However, I am incredibly concerned as a citizen, parent, healthcare worker, and teacher about the trend I am seeing.

Our numbers are continuing in an upward trajectory and I can’t help but reach out and ask if there are any plans and/or changes on the horizon to mitigate this? Now, bars are going to open also thanks to an order from our Governor.

You all acted incredibly early to keep your citizen safe with mandatory mask orders and limited occupancies. Thanks to those actions our statistics have been fantastic. Now, our efforts are being trampled and I am concerned we are soon going to be overwhelmed.

Thankfully the cases are in a younger cohort so ICU’s aren’t overwhelmed. However, I can tell you these patients have effects that aren’t immediately seen. Even asymptomatic, you  and healthy patients are coming in later with myocarditis and other heart affects we are seeing. We cannot put our head in the sand and allow our city and county to be overrun for the sake of the students, my students that I adore. I don’t know what can be done but I do hope something will be.

You’ve done so much, I hope this increase will not be ignored. I feel we are rapidly approaching the position we were in when we had much more drastic restrictions in the spring.

Thank you for your time.

Christina

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