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Wesley Chapel will soon have three general hospitals within a five-minute drive, part of a boom unleashed when the state dropped a requirement that companies obtain approval to open new hospitals. Where are they building? What are the effects?

There's still not a lot of data available as to why some people get long COVID and others don't.

The system says metal detectors had been in the works for months but expedited the installation after a woman was charged with killing her terminally ill husband at a nearby hospital.

Watch this video to hear from some multitalented health care workers on what making music means to them.

Dr. Vincent Valente says quick detection is crucial as about 97 percent of people who get sick with the amoeba will die.

Hospitals in the region say most of their staff have received COVID-19 vaccines.

Sarasota Memorial Hospital, which had not been allowing visitations, said it will now allow most patients to have two visitors. It also resumed nonemergency surgeries this week.

At the forefront of the concerns is a shortage of nurses, which the executives told lawmakers has created an emergency for hospital administrators.

Prior to President Joe Biden's announcement that hospital workers must get a coronavirus vaccine, leaders of hospital systems in the region have been reluctant to make it a requirement.

Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer for the Central Florida Division, says cases in the seven-county region have peaked and "we are looking at the beginning of what we believe to be a downward curve.”

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Orlando-based epidemiologist Dr. Vincent Hsu about the state's strained health care resources amid a new surge of coronavirus cases. He says it's the worse it's ever been.

They're temporarily stopping elective procedures and limiting patient visits.