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‘The haves and the have-nots’: how Covid revealed Florida’s wealth gap – The Guardian
Buffered from the surge in cases, wealthy coastal locales like Bal Harbour illustrate how sharp the socioeconomic divide is in Miami-Dade in the wake of the pandemic
When the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic reached southern Floridas shores, Bal Harbour residents braced themselves. In early March, health department officials confirmed a New York man who tested positive for coronavirus had spent time in the wealthy enclave. About a week later, a pair of Bal Harbour rabbis were among the first people in Miami-Dade county to test positive for the deadly virus.
The mayor, Gabriel Groisman, quickly went into isolation because he had been with one of the ra…
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