Tampa Times
https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2020/04/14/tampa-international-airport-to-get-81-million-in-federal-coronavirus-relief-aid/
Tampa International Airport will receive $81 million and St. Pete-Clearwater International Aiport will receive $8.7 million in federal airport relief grants announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The money was allocated within the federal government’s $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, also known as CARES, to "help fund the continued operations of our nation’s airports during this crisis and save workers’ jobs,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in an announcement of the grants.
The agency is awarding $10 billion nationwide, with $896 million going to 100 airports around Florida.
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While nearly 70 percent continue to say they miss travel, few will jump right back in when the coronavirus situation has passed
Nine in ten American travelers say they will approach travel carefully with at least some trepidation
The percent feeling the coronavirus situation in the United States will get better in the next month nearly doubled to 29.5% from 15.4%.
Florida Cases Tampa Times
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/09/the-latest-data-how-coronavirus-in-florida-is-trending-right-now/
How are we doing?
Experts say the most important question at this stage is whether the number of new cases of the virus is growing faster or slower than yesterday. But that can be hard to see without using a logarithmic scale, which is designed to show whether the growth in cases is speeding up or slowing down.
This is the number of cases announced each day, charted that way. It shows Florida alongside other hotspots, like New York and Louisiana, so you can see how well each state is slowing the virus. We also added a dotted line showing where that number will be if the growth rate stays the same for another week. The steepness of each line shows how fast the growth rate is right now — flatter is better.
What about deaths?
So far, deaths have lagged behind positive cases by several weeks on a similar trajectory. Here’s the growth rate for the number of deaths in the same states. Again, flatter is better.
What factors could change those rates?
Governments have put increasingly stringent social distancing policies into effect, including a statewide stay-at-home order that was issued on April 1. That should help turn the number of new infections downward, although public health experts warn it takes several weeks for those effects to show up in the data.
There is also a lot of uncertainty about how quickly labs are processing tests. If lots of people’s outstanding tests come back positive at once, Florida’s curve will shoot up again.
Medical experts also have warned that deaths may spike if hospitals become overloaded. Right now, both deaths and hospitalizations in Florida are growing exponentially. (This chart shows all people who have been hospitalized so far, not those currently in the hospital. Some of those people have died.)
In just the week ending April 4th, travel spending registered $18.6 billion lower than the same week a year ago.
Catalyst Article
https://stpetecatalyst.com/survey-laid-off-workers-in-tampa-st-petersburg-say-they-have-less-than-3-weeks-support/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Spark%204-10-2020&utm_content=Daily%20Spark%204-10-2020+CID_1fd8b9f28d9ed2b1fa943ee4e8b7f92a&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Survey%20Laid%20off%20workers%20in%20Tampa-St%20Petersburg%20say%20they%20have%20less%20than%203%20weeks%20support
“This survey shows, very clearly, that residents of Tampa Bay have a high level of concern about the health and economic impacts of Covid-19 and they believe we have a long way to go before we put this crisis in the rear-view mirror,” said Rick Homans, president and CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership.
The survey was conducted April 1-2 by Downs & St. Germain Research, which interviewed 384 adults in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties.
One of four people surveyed have been laid off or furloughed from their job since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the survey found. One in three have had their hours or pay reduced. About 38 percent are working from home.
For workers who have lost their jobs permanently or temporarily, about one-third, or 31 percent, said they think they can find another job at similar pay, but an equal number of those surveyed said they did not think that could happen and 38 percent were unsure.