TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s U.S. senators are making a new push for year-round daylight-saving time, this time tied to the coronavirus pandemic. Two years after backing a state legislative effort to put Florida on year-round daylight-saving time, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Sen. Rick Scott introduced a bill to skip the change to standard time this fall across the country. To try to move the new proposal forward, Rubio plans to use a procedure that would skip the Senate Commerce Committee and place the measure on the Senate Calendar. The idea of year-round daylight saving time has been promoted as a way to help Florida’s tourism industry, as people would be able to stay out later with the additional sunlight. Daylight saving time this year ends Nov. 1 and restarts March 14, 2021.

Ron DeSantis told reporters at a Miami news conference that a supply of remdesivir had been sent to several hospitals across the state. We will stand by our fellow Americans every step of the way as our nation fights COVID-19 together.Remdesivir is an experimental drug being used to treat COVID-19 patients. The supply shortage comes as Florida hospitals face record numbers of COVID-19 admissions. The Florida Department of Health also notified hospitals July 1 that the remdesivir supply was exhausted and temporarily shut down the portal hospitals used to request the drug. Migoya said Jackson, a major public hospital, had 400 patients with COVID-19 as of Monday, up from 200 about a month ago.