Greetings neighbors, this is the Miami Corona Project Daily Update for Monday, April13th, 2020:

As of yesterday, April 12th, 2020, there have been 7,054 positive cases of coronavirus across the county, with 531 hospitalizations and a total of 97 deaths– two more than yesterday.

Both Broward and Miami-Dade County medical examiners have reported that a disproportionate number of minorities have fallen due to coronavirus, as more than half of those who have died due to COVID-19 have been people of color, with nearly a third of those deaths involving African-Americans. 

Across the United States, the national total of positive cases has grown to 554,226, the total number of those fallen rising to 21,733.

Jackson Hospital, one of the nation’s largest public health systems,  is taking issue with the current distribution of relief funding towards hospitals, as the federal Department of Health and Human Services  announced it would give hospitals and doctors money according to their historical share of revenue from the Medicare program for seniors — not according to their coronavirus burden. This presents an increasingly difficult situation for hospitals like Miami Jackson, which is at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic within South Florida.

Let’s hope today brings better news.  I’ll update you tomorrow.