When Gov. DeSantis issued stay-at-home order, Florida had already logged 188 COVID-19 deaths

MIAMI – By the time Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a stay-at-home order warning Floridians of the danger posed by the rapidly spreading coronavirus, 188 people already had died – considerably more than the 85 fatalities the state acknowledged at the time. Most of those who died from a coronavirus infection in March were elders, though the fatalities also included a 28-year-old woman who died at …