South Florida New Year’s Eve Events Still On Despite Omicron Surge

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – To spell retired oregon enactment successful this New Year’s Eve? That is the question.

Some radical are laying debased but galore aren’t. The surge successful omicron cases won’t halt the New Year’s Eve enactment successful South Florida.

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In Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, each events are scheduled to happen.

“People are educated, informed, they tin marque their ain decisions.  If you’re not consenting to instrumentality the hazard past don’t travel down here,” says 1 woman.

After COVID cancellations past year, New Year’s Eve events are backmost on.

“We are 100% sick of COVID,” says different woman.

That’s a communal feeling felt by many.

Pankhudi Jain, who’s visiting Miami from California, says, “I deliberation astatine this constituent we’re each truly sick of covid.  At slightest we’re not going backmost into a lockdown and we’re inactive capable to bash the things we privation to do.”

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In Fort Lauderdale, the New Year’s Eve lawsuit adjacent Museum of Discovery and Science volition beryllium each outdoors.

At Bayfront Park, a performance and firework amusement is each acceptable and acceptable to go. There volition beryllium masks disposable for guests arsenic good arsenic sanitizing stations acceptable up passim the park. In erstwhile years, there’s been much than 100,000 radical astatine the event.

However, for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, the Big Orange emergence is canceled.  The decorator of the orange, Steve Carpenter, known arsenic Mr. Neon, and his unit tested affirmative for COVID19.

“At this constituent successful March it’s going to beryllium 2 years of this.  I don’t deliberation we tin hide astir COVID but we tin instrumentality the precautions and person the champion clip we can,” says Jain.

Across the Jackson Health System, nurses and doctors are caring for 252 COVID-19 patients.  That number, much than doubling from this clip past week.  Across Memorial Health Care System, determination are much than 300 affirmative COVID cases.

“That’s a small concerning but radical are making the prime astatine the extremity of the day, whether they privation to enactment oregon not,” says Jain.

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Ashley Dyer