Florida's COVID deaths reach nearly 6,000 in 2024
Florida's deaths in 2024 linked to COVID-19 totaled 5,914 with a 146 increase in December, according to the Department of Health.
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Florida's deaths in 2024 linked to COVID-19 totaled 5,914 with a 146 increase in December, according to the Department of Health.
Cases are the lowest since the pandemic began in 2020.
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If you still haven't gotten your COVID or flu shot, now is the time so you'll stay protected throughout the season, according to doctors.
Cases are the lowest in the state since the pandemic began in 2020.
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The CDC recommends that immunocompromised people and those age 65 and older should get a second dose of the 2024-2025 COVID vaccine.
Healgen Scientific's combined COVID-19 and flu test gives people a new way to check what's causing their symptoms, FDA says.
Many of the free COVID tests being shipped out now will be expiring within a few months.
Florida deaths linked to COVID-19 rose 374 in 2 weeks
The government has already disbursed more than 900 million free at-home COVID-19 tests, and will be reopening its free test kit portal.
State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo spread anti-vaccine misinformation by telling Floridians to avoid mRNA vaccines. Vaccine experts and historians can't remember another state health leader urging residents to avoid an FDA-approved vaccine.
Some of the earliest U.S. cases of the new COVID-19 variant XEC were reported in Virginia.
It's critical to get COVID and flu vaccinations as we head into the fall and winter months, an infectious disease expert said.
Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September.
The updated COVID-10 shots for fall 2024 are rolling out earlier than last year.
Gov. Ron DeSantis' office described the new totals as the "greatest second-quarter tourism numbers in Florida history."
A reported 3,162 Florida resident deaths have been linked to COVID-19 this year
COVID-19 was the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, down from fourth place in 2022.
President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 last week, prompting an array of questions about his health and condition. Here's what we know.
Researchers have published more than 24,000 papers on long COVID — a constellation of health effects such as shortness of breath, fatigue, brain fog and heart failure that last months or years after the initial infection.
With summer halfway over, health officials expect the number of cases to rise when kids go back to school.
Nationwide, the CDC says the COVID virus level in wastewater is now "high" for the first time since last winter.
The LB.1 variant makes up close to 1 in 5 new COVID cases, the CDC estimates.
