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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
89,382,717
Deaths
1,023,477
Florida total
Cases
6,640,046
Deaths
78,245

Last updated 5:35 p.m. July 15. Florida totals are updated biweekly 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. COVID-19 cases rise in Florida as BA.5 becomes the region’s dominant strain
    Jul. 16• Health
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's community chart on Friday shows many Florida counties are at "high" risk of COVID-19. Those are the ones colored orange. The "medium" risk counties are colored yellow and "low" risk counties are green.
  2. Novavax COVID-19 shot option OK’d by FDA
    Jul. 13• Health
    In this image provided by the Serum Institute of India, vials of freshly manufactured Novavax COVID-19 vaccines wait to be labeled in 2022, in Pune, India. The U.S. is getting another COVID-19 vaccine choice as the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Novavax shots for adults.
  5. How Pfizer won the COVID pandemic, reaping profit and influence
    Jul. 11• Health
    The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as COVID-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill hundreds each day.
  6. Florida’s COVID-19 cases ebb as hospitalizations keep climbing
    Jul. 8• Health
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's community chart on Friday shows many Florida counties are at "high" risk of COVID-19. Those are the ones colored orange. The "medium" risk counties are colored yellow and "low" risk counties are green.
  7. Norwegian Cruise Line to drop requirement for COVID-19 test
    Jul. 6• Business
    Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Gem sits at the Port of Miami, awaiting a hoped-for return to service.
  8. COVID cases rising nearly everywhere in the world, reports WHO
    Jul. 5• Health
    Pediatrician Emy Jean-Marie, center, holds her 9-month-old son Adedeji Adebayo on her lap as Dr. Nizar Dowla, right, administers a vaccine while Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Health, Admiral Rachel Levine, left, looks on June 28 at the Borinquen Health Care Center in Miami.
  9. 99% of Florida residents at ‘high’ risk of COVID-19
    Jul. 2• Health
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's community chart on Friday shows many Florida counties are at "high" risk of COVID-19. Those are the ones colored orange. The "medium" risk counties are colored yellow and "low" risk counties are green.
  10. Tampa Bay parents scramble to find COVID vaccines for infants, toddlers
    Jun. 30• Politics
    Nurse Jordan Dierksheide and Medical Assistant Cassandra Ross help administer a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to JoseMaria Mejia, 7, of Ruskin, during a vaccination event hosted by Enterprising Latinas at Wimauma Opportunity Center in Wimauma on Nov. 14, 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month recommended COVID-19 vaccines for kids under age 5, but some Florida parents are struggling to get young children vaccinated.
  11. Elmo, 3, joins youngest Americans in getting vaccinated
    Jun. 30• Health
    FILE - This Jan. 24, 2011, photo shows "Sesame Street" muppet Elmo posing for a portrait with the assistance of puppeteer Kevin Clash in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to promote the documentary "Being Elmo" in Park City, Utah. Elmo got a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, June 28, 2022, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind “Sesame Street." (AP Photo/Victoria Will, File)
  12. Ladapo tells Congress that Florida decision could limit kids’ vaccine access
    Jun. 29• Politics
    In a briefing to a congressional subcommittee Tuesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, left, said the decision not to preorder COVID-19 shots for young children was made “together” with Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Información acerca del coronavirus en español

Nueva opción de inyección de Novavax contra COVID-19 aprobada por la FDA
Jul. 14• CENTRO
La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos finalmente autorizó la vacuna COVID-19 de Novavax, una vacuna de proteínas que no utiliza tecnología de ARNm. Novavax espera apuntar a las decenas de millones de estadounidenses que no están vacunados contra el COVID-19 o que se beneficiarían de los refuerzos pero que han evitado las vacunas de ARNm debido a problemas de salud o teorías de conspiración sobre sus peligros.
Padres de familia buscan vacunas COVID para bebés y niños pequeños
Jun. 30• CENTRO
Los funcionarios de salud están refiriendo a las familias a “centros de salud federalmente calificados”, clínicas generalmente administradas por organizaciones sin fines de lucro.
Publix no ofrecerá la vacuna contra el COVID a niños menores de 5 años
Jun. 22• CENTRO
Publix, el empleador privado más grande del estado, no ofrecerá la vacuna recientemente aprobada para niños menores de 4 años.
El 2021 fue uno de los años más mortíferos en las carreteras
Jul. 5• CENTRO
Ciclistas participan en el Paseo del Silencio, un evento anual en reconocimiento a aquellos que resultaron heridos o muertos por un automovilista.
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