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CEO Michael Bayley wrote on social media that the ship returned Tuesday to PortMiami after testing CDC safety and health protocols put in place due to the COVID pandemic. -
Jill Biden is scheduled to be at the Tampa Bay Lightning's AdventHealth Shots on Ice event at Amalie Arena, one of two Florida visits on Thursday. She'll also be in Kissimmee.
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The Freedom of the Seas pulled away from PortMiami about 7 p.m. Sunday with a fully vaccinated crew and about 600 volunteer passengers.
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Royal Caribbean says its Celebrity Millennium, sailing out of St. Marteen, had two passengers come up positive for COVID while undergoing the required end-of-cruise testing.
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Health authorities are trying to determine whether a heart inflammation could be a rare side effect in teens and young adults after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
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During the hearing, the judge chided the state for issuing a comment last week that mediation efforts had reached an “impasse” when they had not.
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Mediators are typically summoned in the hopes of coaxing both sides into settling their differences outside the court.
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The four FEMA sites - including Tampa Greyhound Track - will have the capacity to administer up to 3,000 doses per day, the Florida Division of Emergency Management said.
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Only the Pfizer shot is approved by the FDA for 16 and older. An emergency order says "all Floridians shall be eligible to receive any COVID-19 vaccine as prescribed by the Food and Drug Administration" on April 5.
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The governor also said the state could soon be seeing as many as 42,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses next week, and possibly more in the two weeks after that.
