January 2014 Contents

Florida Business News

• South Florida a hotspot for COVID-19 and for vaccine trials

  First came the coronavirus in record numbers in South Florida. Now come the vaccine makers looking for a fertile testing ground for whether their inoculations work.

• NOAA issues pessimistic hurricane forecast as Atlantic enters peak of season

  The federal government issued a pessimistic new forecast for hurricane season Thursday, increasing its prediction for the number of storms we can expect as we head into the season’s peak.

• Foreign tourist spending in U.S. might not fully recover until 2024, expert warns

  International tourist spending in the United States might not return to pre-coronavirus levels until 2024, the former head of Florida’s tourism-marketing agency told members of the Economic Club of Florida this week.

• Gov. DeSantis rescinds travel restrictions for those coming from NY, NJ and Connecticut

  For more than four months, travelers coming to Florida from the Tri-State Area – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut – have had to self-quarantine for 14 days upon entering the state.

• Florida Democrats wanted to add 1 million voters in 2020. They didn’t come close

  Following narrow losses in 2018 races for Florida governor and U.S. Senate, Democrats emerged from the midterms with a new resolve to register more voters in the nation’s largest swing state as a path to victory in 2020.

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