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Yellow Fever to COVID: Florida's Democrats Gave the State Power Over Public Health, Republicans Ran With It

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An image of a syringe leaning against a vial of COVID-19 vaccine
Matt Rourke
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AP
A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Norristown Public Health Center in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.

For a long time, big decisions that affected the health of Floridians came from county-run health departments. Aiming for more equity, Democrats funneled that power to the state, and somewhere along the way, Republicans embraced big government.

Daniel Rivero is part of SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä±'s new investigative reporting team. Before joining SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä±, he was an investigative reporter and producer on the television series "The Naked Truth," and a digital reporter for Fusion. He can be reached at <a label="drivero@wlrnnews.org" class="rte2-style-brightspot-core-link-LinkRichTextElement" href="mailto:drivero@wlrnnews.org" target="_blank" link-data="{&quot;cms.site.owner&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;0000016e-ccea-ddc2-a56e-edfe78d10000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;ae3387cc-b875-31b7-b82d-63fd8d758c20&quot;},&quot;cms.content.publishDate&quot;:1678401998388,&quot;cms.content.publishUser&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000185-c831-dae1-a78d-ecf9b3f30000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc&quot;},&quot;cms.content.updateDate&quot;:1678401998388,&quot;cms.content.updateUser&quot;:{&quot;_ref&quot;:&quot;00000185-c831-dae1-a78d-ecf9b3f30000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc&quot;},&quot;cms.directory.paths&quot;:[],&quot;anchorable.showAnchor&quot;:false,&quot;link&quot;:{&quot;attributes&quot;:[],&quot;cms.directory.paths&quot;:[],&quot;linkText&quot;:&quot;drivero@wlrnnews.org&quot;,&quot;target&quot;:&quot;NEW&quot;,&quot;attachSourceUrl&quot;:false,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;mailto:drivero@wlrnnews.org&quot;,&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;00000186-c88d-db71-a7b6-d8bdb98b0001&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a&quot;},&quot;_id&quot;:&quot;00000186-c88d-db71-a7b6-d8bdb98b0000&quot;,&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288&quot;}">drivero@wlrnnews.org</a>
Verónica Zaragovia was born in Cali, Colombia, and grew up in South Florida. She covered health care, as well as Surfside and Miami Beach politics for the station.