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Coronavirus in Florida

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into its second year, read the latest on the coronavirus, its variants and the vaccines as well as helpful tips from safety to economic relief and more.

U.S. total
Cases
79,911,690
Deaths
976,467
Florida total
Cases
5,841,469
Deaths
73,027

Last updated 5:41 p.m. March 25. Florida totals are updated weekly on Fridays. State totals include in-state residents and non-residents who tested positive while visiting the state. Source: Johns Hopkins and Florida Department of Health

  1. U.S. experts discuss COVID boosters for the fall and beyond
    Yesterday• Health
    Medical personnel reach for pre-loaded syringes as they vaccinate students at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans on Jan. 25. The vaccination drive against COVID-19 in the U.S. is grinding to a halt, and lagging demand is especially stark in conservative corners of the country where many people weren't interested in the shots in the first place.
  2. Federal COVID funding is running out for community health workers
    Yesterday• Health
    Christina Scott (left) and Brandi Camren load groceries into a car at Community Care Center’s food bank in Granite City, Illinois. Scott planned to take them to one of her clients.
  5. COVID outbreak ‘extremely grim’ as Shanghai extends lockdown
    Yesterday• Health
    Residents line up to get their throat swab at a coronavirus testing site on Tuesday in Beijing. China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city.
  6. As U.S. nears 1 million COVID deaths, a county grapples with loss
    Yesterday• Health
    Lewistown is the seat of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. The county has recorded over 300 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
  7. No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk
    Yesterday• Environment
    In this Sept. 18, 2021, photo, emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kans. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including today’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stress that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is not game over for planet Earth or humanity. Action can prevent some of the worst if done soon, they say.
  8. Democratic, GOP Senate bargainers reach $10 billion COVID deal
    Apr. 4• Health
    Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, arrives to watch a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy live-streamed into the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, on March 16. Bipartisan Senate bargainers have agreed to a slimmed-down $10 billion package for countering COVID-19, but without any funds to help nations abroad combat the pandemic, Democrats and Republicans familiar with the talks said Monday.
  9. Man in Germany gets 90 COVID-19 shots to sell forged passes
    Apr. 3• Nation & World
    File photo shows an 87-year-old man getting his booster shot at the vaccination center in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. A-60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against Covid-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers.
  10. Joseph Ladapo hiring violated UF procedures, faculty report says
    Mar. 31• Politics
    UF's hiring of Joseph Ladapo, whom Gov. Ron DeSantis picked last year to be the state’s surgeon general, did not adequately involve the input of faculty normally charged with reviewing a candidate’s application for tenure, the report found.
  11. What’s keeping Medicaid enrollees from getting COVID vaccine?
    Mar. 31• Health
    Marcia Myers, 90, receives a booster shot of the Pfizer vaccination from Kara Dandrea with Guardian Pharmacy on Sept. 17, 2021 at the Toby& Leon Cooperman Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida. Two Democratic senators want the Government Accountability Office to study why COVID-19 vaccination rates remain low among Medicaid enrollees.
  12. FDA approves another Pfizer, Moderna COVID booster for 50 and up
    Mar. 29• Health
    Vials for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are seen at a temporary clinic in Exeter, N.H. on Feb. 25, 2021. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized another booster dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for people age 50 and up.

Información acerca del coronavirus en español

Reino Unido alcanza niveles récord de COVID-19; casi 5 millones de infectados
Yesterday• CENTRO
La gente pasa frente a los grandes almacenes cerrados House of Fraser en Oxford Street, en Londres, el viernes 1 de abril de 2022. Los costos de energía para millones de hogares en el Reino Unido aumentarán un 54% el viernes. Es el segundo gran salto en las facturas de energía desde octubre, y un tercero puede estar por delante, ya que la demanda de recuperación de la pandemia de COVID-19 y ahora la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania hacen subir los precios del petróleo y el gas natural. (Foto AP/Matt Dunham)
COVID-19: ¿Apertura total o inteligente?
Mar. 31• CENTRO
Los servicios de emergencias siguen recibiendo cientos de pacientes afectados por el COVID.
Moderna busca la autorización de la FDA para la cuarta dosis de la vacuna COVID
Mar. 22• CENTRO
Moderna. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Estaba sano, vacunado, luego tuvo un ataque al corazón. ¿Fue COVID?
Mar. 16• CENTRO
El cardiólogo Hoshedar Tamboli, izq, y su paciente Juan Sosa en una habitación del Heart Vascular & Vein of Tampa Bay en Brandon. Sosa, de 58 años, estaba sano, vacunado y recuperándose de una infección leve de COVID-19 en septiembre cuando sintió dolor en el pecho. Estaba teniendo un infarto y Tamboli tardaría horas en salvarle la vida. El caso de Sosa demostró un nuevo descubrimiento preocupante que los investigadores médicos están estudiando: COVID-19 está convirtiendo a las personas sanas en pacientes cardíacos y puede aumentar el riesgo de ataque cardíaco o accidente cerebrovascular.
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