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...
COVID-19 coronavirus cases in Florida and the Tampa Bay area: What you need to know to avoid getting coronavirus, and what you should do if you think you are sick in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Lakeland, and the rest of Central Florida.
said Jeffrey Goldhagen, a pediatrician and professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville. Ladapo urged people under 65 to avoid COVID shots last year and has rejected public health protocols for fighting measles outbreaks. ...
Students at Florida State University have been arrested and charged with violating COVID-19 regulations by hosting an open house party, and Texas A&M is reporting an outbreak of more than 400 cases. Manuel Bojorquez has more details.
Zika tested public health systems in new ways, particularly for maternal child health populations. The systems are now being challenged again, as the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic spreads throughout Florida. This qualitative journey mapping evaluation of Florida's response focused on care for pregnant...
FILE PHOTO: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center on the Army Corps' building of a coronavirus field hospital inside the facility, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. April 8, 2020. Al...
UPDATED// Late Thursday, the Florida Department of Health said it was investigating a second Zika infection that did not appear to be related to travel. The second patient is in Broward County, neighboring the first such suspected case in Miami-Dade County. The state said it has asked the ...
The Florida Health Department also tweeted late Thursday that experts anticipate little to no impact on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccinations being rolled out in a state grappling with overwhelming demand for the vaccines from its large senior population. ...
Despite claims that Florida traces every case of Covid-19, a CNN investigation found that health authorities in Florida, now the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for the virus, often fail to do contact tracing, long considered a key tool in containing an outbreak. ...
DeSantis has argued that his COVID leadership has been effective, protecting nursing home patients, seniors and others of the most vulnerable. Because of the new outbreak, several hospitals across the state are reinstituting visitation restrictions. Jackson Health, the state's largest provider, has...