TAMPA, Fla.-As theomicron variantcontinues to spread across the state, health officials are growing concerned. They say the strain of the virus is highly contagious and the increase inFlorida’s COVID-19 cases is now beginning to reflect that. To put into perspective the Florid...
The Florida Department of Health reported another record-setting day for COVID-19 deaths; however, there is a delay in reporting some deaths around the state. ORLANDO, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) is reporting a record number of deaths from COVID-19, listing 156 deaths ...
Speaking during a COVID-19 roundtable in West Palm Beach on Monday, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cited a recent study from the New York State Department of Health, which looked at Pfizer’s coronavirus shot and found the vaccine’s effectiveness against hospitalizations in children ...
In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically ...
COVID-19 Information The Florida Department of Health has provided a COVID-19 Toolkit with information about general prevention, protecting yourself in gatherings and crowds, planning and care for older adults, and much more. You can alsocheck for updatesabout the current situation in Florida, inc...
The move goes against the advice of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "The Florida Department of Health is going to be the first officially to recommend against the covid-19 vaccine for healthy children," Joseph Ladapo said, standing next to Florida's governor Rick ...
The medical examiner's office in Miami is looking into the death of a doctor who died about two weeks after getting Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, officials said Friday.
Ina bulletinposted Wednesday on the Florida Department of Health's website, Ladapo raised concerns about "nucleic acid contaminants" found in theapproved Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. He claimed this could deliver "contaminant DNA" into human cells and also raised concerns about cancer ris...
The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) has an amazing dataset here: complete line list of the state's COVID-19 cases and deaths. To our knowledge, it is the only open dataset documenting the exact age of hundreds of thousands of cases. This gives us great insights because age is a ve...
Both had traveled abroad, Florida Department of Health said in a statement announcing the two deaths and a total of 12 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the southeast state. They brought the USdeathtoll to 16, including 14 reported earlier, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University Coronaviru...