Friday will bring a new day for the entire state of Florida as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 30-day stay-at-home order will officially start.
One of the people who helped advise Gov. DeSantis and Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Scott A. Rivkees to institute the mandate was Dr.
Ali Mokdad, Ph.D. in quantitative epidemiology, who is a professor of global health at the University of Washington. "I think by doing so you save more lives," said Mokdad. "I wish it was done much earlier." Mokdad hails from the same university that started the first drive-through testing sites in the nation - and which was the first university to shift to online learning once the pandemic hit the U.S.