“If it could happen to my sister who wore a mask all the time, she was really good about it – it can happen to anybody else,” said Miller.
CBS4 has learned there has been a dramatic drop in the number of patients with the coronavirus at South Florida hospitals.
The alert came after a fox tested positive.
“We don’t put people in shelters these days. We put them in our quarantine program, which is a hotel program.”
What is most alarming is that twenty-two percent of new COVID cases in the country are coming from children.
Geller says he's concerned that Broward ranks as one of the top counties in the nation with new weekly COVID cases.
This is a community garden that has been in existence for the past three and half years in the middle of Historic Black Overtown.
In Miami-Dade, they show one student out with COVID with 91 employees testing positive within the past month.
The sites will offer the Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
The other South Florida location is C.B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines.
Edward Perez was a 25-year veteran of Miami Beach PD, leaves behind a wife and daughter.
But with the excitement comes nervousness as the delta variant continues infecting our youth, unlike last year’s original COVID-19 strain.
Nearly three quarters of Americans say they plan to get a flu shot this year; 45% planning on getting their vaccine at a retail pharmacy
Brooke Shafer reports their medical task force has recommended masks in schools.
A friend of a Pinewood Elementary School teacher who passed away due to COVID-19 is pleading for the community to get vaccinated.
A Carnival Cruise spokesperson said they're managing a “small number” of cases on the Carnival Vista.
Other coronavirus news: Dolphins player won’t get vaccinated, anti-vax radio host dies from COVID-19, pediatric experts talk masks for kids.
Florida’s COVID hospitalizations have broken daily records for 11 straight days. There were more than 15,000 admissions on Wednesday.
CBS4's Jessica Vallejo reports three of the teachers who died were unvaccinated. It is not clear if the fourth teacher had.
Most of these children have been treated in the emergency room and sent home, but “those that are admitted are sicker than what we've seen."
Miami-Dade County issued a no swim advisory for Little Maule Lake Wednesday after a wastewater pipe broke.
“This is not just a giveaway. It's a community event where everyone gets together,” said Estimé-Irvin.
Brooke Shafer reports doctors say they are seeing more unvaccinated people in their 20s and 30s being hospitalized for COVID.
Florida remains the epicenter of the COVID-19 surge. Gutfreund, an ER doctor at Jackson Memorial Hospital, says they are overwhelmed.
As of Tuesday, an average of 192 children with Covid-19 were admitted to US hospitals every day over the past week, CDC data shows.
Fear of getting the virus and of losing freedoms looks like it motivates people to get vaccinated.
Dr. Yoran Gutfreund, an emergency room doctor at Jackson Memorial Hospital said they are seeing younger patients.
Here is updated data on which hospitals are nearing capacity in Miami-Dade County.
The Florida Department of Health will be administering both Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
Memorial Healthcare System in Broward County put beds for COVID-19 patients in cafeterias, auditoriums, conference rooms, reports said.
The line formed early at Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek as Broward County expanded early testing sites.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber on lack of information being provided to local officials during the pandemic.
Despite a surge in COVID-19 cases, the lines are long for testing but short for vaccinations.
“The numbers are doubling every 10 or 11 days,” said Mayor Geller. “This is horrifying.”
Jones says the governor has turned this into political theatrics. "[DeSantis] has 22 million people in Florida, and only creates division."
6 Royal Caribbean passengers tested positive for COVID-19 aboard the Adventure Of The Seas. None of the 6 infected were vaccinated.
For the second consecutive day, there was fiery debate on the use of masks at the board's headquarters in Fort Lauderdale.
As COVID-19 cases surge in South Florida, Miami-Dade County officials encourages masks, vaccines, social distancing.
Four McCormick spices have been recalled from Florida stores after routine testing found possible salmonella contamination.
But his change of heart came “after attending the funerals of some human beings that I respected.”