64th Coffee with the Commissioner: Talking COVID-19 Surge with Executives from all 3 Area Hospitals

Virtual Event, Next District 1 Coffee with the Commissioner Aug. 11

Join District 1 Commissioner Jeff Bergosh at his virtual 64th Coffee with the Commissioner event Wednesday, Aug. 11. The live stream will take place from 6:30 - 7:30 a.m. To join the meeting, go to the following Facebook page and watch the live stream: www.facebook.com/CommissionerBergosh/. 

Attendees will include Interim County Administrator Wes Moreno, Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore, Baptist Hospital Senior Vice President Scott Raynes, Ascension Sacred Heart President Dawn Rudolph and West Florida Hospital Chief Executive Officer Gay Nord. The discussion will focus on the COVID-19 Delta variant and its impact on our community, hospitals and medical staff.

Residents are encouraged to send virtual questions and comments they would like to discuss with District 1 Commissioner during the event through Facebook. 

We Had an Excellent 35th Coffee With a Commissioner Event Today--Lots of Great Questions and Answers!

We had an excellent "virtual" Coffee with the Commissioner event this morning featuring Gay Nord, CEO of West Florida Hospital, Dr. Fausto Devecchi, Physician Advisor to West Florida Hospital, Janice Gilley, Escambia County Administrator, and Eric Gilmore, Emergency Management Department Director for Escambia County.  We covered a lot of topics surrounding the COVID-19 Outbreak--and we had some really insightful answers to questions like:

--When will elective surgeries begin again?

--Can asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 be contagious--and what precisely is the difference between a "recovered" COVID-19 patient and an asymptomatic carrier?

--What does recovery look like for patients that have had this virus?

--Is W. Florida Hospital using the "cocktail" of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin?

--Can the beaches be opened in a limited way and when could this happen?

--why exactly can we not release the name of the facility locally where a spike in cases has occurred in Escambia County?

--what will "re-opening" our economy an our businesses look like?

We had a lot of other interesting questions and answers.

You can watch the entire video on Facebook here