Julio Ochoa
Health News Florida EditorJulio Ochoa is editor of Health News Florida.
He comes to WUSF from The Tampa Tribune, where he began as a website producer for TBO.com and served in several editing roles, eventually becoming the newspaper’s deputy metro editor.
Julio was born and raised in St. Petersburg, and received a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado and worked at a paper in Greeley, Colo., before returning to Florida as a reporter and as breaking news editor for the Naples Daily News.
Contact Julio at 813-974-8633, on Twitter at @julioochoa or email julioochoa@wusf.org.
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The university had announced in October that it was eliminating the College of Education because of budget cuts, but leaders now say some programs may remain. -
The last time the state reported more than 10,000 cases in a day was on July 26 when there were 12,444 new cases.
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Just a month ago, the rate for people who tested positive for the first time in Florida had been holding steady at around 5%.
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The Florida Department of Dealth reported 6,820 new cases of the coronavirus, including 1,285 in the greater Tampa Bay region on Sunday.
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In the greater Tampa Bay region, the state reported 769 new cases and 17 new deaths on Saturday.
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Florida and other states use the rate of people who have tested positive for the virus for the first time as one of several indicators of how prevalent the virus is in the state.
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Health experts say when test results are delayed it impacts contact tracing and quarantine efforts that help prevent the disease from spreading.
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State officials were unable to release data about the virus on Saturday after it received about 400,000 previously-reported COVID-19 test results from a private lab.
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Small business owners traditionally wear many hats and the coronavirus pandemic has added a few more.
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There were 438 new COVID-19 cases reported in the greater Tampa Bay region and only one death, which was reported in Hillsborough County.
