Piling up

Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 4:15 a.m.

COVID-19 casualties continue to pile up in Florida.

Also, on today’s Sunrise:

— The Florida Board of Education votes to crack down on two school districts accused of trying to protect their students from COVID-19. Alachua and Broward are being punished for refusing to make masks optional.

Charlie Crist comes out swinging in the battle over face masks, with his first commercial attacking Ron DeSantis over his COVID-19 response. It will not be the last.

— The Governor announces another site for COVID-19 sufferers to get monoclonal antibodies.

— And since when did DeSantis become a pitchman for Regeneron? There's a theory on that.

— And finally, a Florida Man and his Florida Woman used bogus vaccine passports to travel to Hawaii.