Greetings neighbors, this is the Miami Corona Project Daily Update for Wednesday, April 8th, 2020:

Through its continued infiltration across our society, the coronavirus has presented a terrible reality for local Miami residents as well as countless other individuals and communities around the world. 

As of yesterday, April 7th, 2020, there have been 5,126 positive cases of coronavirus within Miami-Dade County, with 316 hospitalizations and 47 deaths. 

Nationally, the numbers are even more staggering, with 394,857 positive cases of the virus along with 12,748 deaths. 

With the growing number of cases both locally and nationally, Miami-Dade County has opted to invest in “mobile-morgues”, refrigerated trucks converted into medical facilities in an attempt to deal with the eventual overload of the deceased within traditional systems.

The difficult implications of the pandemic are currently coming to head, the drastic number of individuals filing unemployment in recent weeks causing Florida’s unemployment website and call center to fail. In turn, the community has been forced to find any way possible to cope, prompting the production and addition of thousands of free forms used in filing for the social service to be available at about half the county’s public libraries.

Let’s hope today brings better news.