Coronavirus

Starting Saturday the CDC's guidance for preventing COVID-19 on cruise ships will become optional as the agency’s Conditional Sailing Order is set to expire.

U.S. health officials have updated their mask guidance, encouraging more Americans to wear N95 or KN95 masks.

Florida reported 430,297 new COVID-19 cases from the past week, a new record that equates to more than 61,000 infections per day, according to the state health department’s report released Friday.

The U.S. Marine Corps has approved its first two COVID-19 vaccine exemptions based on religious reasons, something no other military service has done so far.

Social media posts are calling for a student walkout of schools on Monday. The Broward school district sent parents a letter urging them to talk to their children.

Florida reported 38,614 new COVID-19 cases to the CDC from Thursday, and the state is poised to report its first week-to-week decrease in new infections since November when the health department’s report comes out later Friday.

The omicron surge this winter has swamped U.S. hospitals with record numbers of patients with COVID-19.

Gov. Ron DeSantis once again refused to confirm whether he would receive or has already received a COVID-19 booster shot when asked by a reporter in Sarasota on Friday, calling the decision for Floridians a “private matter.”

“In Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, hospitals have already experienced their peak,” said Mary Mayhew, president and CEO of the Florida Hospital Association.

For the first time, people across the U.S. can log on to a government website and order free, at-home COVID-19 tests.

The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to U.S. residents starting next week.

Doctor O’Neil Pyke, the chief medical officer for Jackson North Medical Center, says COVID-19 hospitalizations have plateaued and there continues to not be as much pressure on ICU beds as compared to the summer’s delta wave.

Florida reported 112,115 new COVID-19 cases from the past three days coming out of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, data that indicates infections are starting to slow.

In southeast Florida, there has been a drop in hospitalizations, which experts say could signal the peak in coronavirus omicron variant cases has passed.

Markham Park in Sunrise, Miami Dade College’s north campus, and the West Boynton Regional Center in Lake Worth will be new monoclonal antibody sites.

Starting Saturday the CDC's guidance for preventing COVID-19 on cruise ships will become optional as the agency’s Conditional Sailing Order is set to expire.

Florida reported 47,709 new COVID-19 cases from Monday, according to the latest CDC data. It follows 49,548 new infections from Sunday, representing a decrease after the state averaged over 64,000 new cases per day over the past week.

Dr. Ali Mokdad believes Florida has already reached its omicron peak and that by the time the current wave is over, about 80% of Floridians will have contracted the virus since the beginning of the pandemic

Over the weekend, a total of nearly 127,000 new cases were reported, and the statewide positivity rate was 31.2 percent, the highest recorded during the pandemic.

Florida verified 126,704 new COVID-19 infections from Saturday and Sunday, according to the latest data posted Monday by the CDC.

Data shows Florida's seven-day case average is the highest it has ever been.

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Demand is high for Broward's school teachers to have access to at-home tests, but many of the COVID-19 test kits they were given out were expired.

Miami-Dade County will be distributing free COVID-19 take-home rapid test starting at 7:30 a.m., on Saturday, at eight Miami-Dade public libraries.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says the Biden Administration is holding back on sending needed supplies of monoclonal antibodies and is “getting in the way of lifesaving treatments for Floridians.” But experts say the drug he wants doesn't work against the dominant omicron variant.

The CDC’s latest data shows Florida broke a daily case record with new infections while hospitalizations are also on the rise.

As South Floridians waited in hours-long testing lines ahead of the Christmas holiday, nearly a million tests were sitting in a state warehouse.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers.

Walmart confirmed Wednesday that it was temporarily closing yet another store in South Florida for cleaning amid the surge in COVID cases.

With COVID-19 cases rapidly spreading across South Florida, the Archdiocese of Miami says it’s mandatory to mask up in church once again.

A dual diagnosis of the flu and COVID-19, sometimes called Flurona, is now being seen in South Florida.

New guidance coming from Dr. Joseph Ladapo and the Florida health department will recommend only people with active COVID symptoms and/or medical risk factors get tested, which would eliminate countless people who are lined up.

A rally held by former and current airline employees took place for several hours in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday afternoon.

Fort Lauderdale is boosting its COVID-19 testing capacity, but in an effort to slow the spread of the virus, the city has also announced the cancellation of its Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.

South Florida medical experts say they are seeing more cases of the omicron variant in emergency rooms, with patients who are too young to receive the vaccine showing respiratory symptoms.

The Florida Hospital Association’s latest data from Monday shows 5,299 people admitted with COVID in the state, up from 4,485 on Dec. 31.

South Florida’s school districts are finding ways to cover staffing shortages amid the surge in COVID-19 cases.

Gov. Ron DeSantis had a scheduled COVID-19 news conference Tuesday morning at the Florida Department of Health – Duval County in Jacksonville, but it was a well-known activist who showed up at the news conference ahead of the governor who stole the show.

Substantial weight loss, even if achieved through bariatric surgery, improved COVID-related outcomes among people with obesity, a new study found.