'Governor who? ... That's my response,' said President Joe Biden. The state of Florida currently accounts for one in five new cases of COVID-19 nationwide.
"If you're trying to restrict people and impose mandates and ruin their jobs and livelihood, if you are trying to lock people down," he said,"I am standing in your way."
On Wednesday, the Florida governor advised Biden to"do his job," referencing that the president should focus on controlling the southern border."And until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you," he said. "Leaders are going to have to choose whether they're going to follow public health guidelines or they're going to follow politics," White House press secretaryThe state of Florida currently accounts for one in five new cases of COVID-19 nationwide, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention .medical contributor Dr. David Agus said the COVID surge in Florida is due to the Delta variant, and because of public behavior.
On Wednesday, In a tweet responding to DeSantis's remarks, Psaki noted that 23 percent of new U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations are in Florida and hopes DeSantis will join them in the fight against the pandemic.
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