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The number of people testing positive reported Tuesday is more than four times higher than Monday's number.
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The move will help relieve congestion at the University Mall site where thousands were showing up daily for vaccines.
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The Florida Department of Health said 11,015 people statewide tested positive for the coronavirus since Sunday's report, including 2,342 people in the greater Tampa Bay region.
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The pandemic has forced difficult conversations about the limits of tests. It has also revealed the catastrophic harms of failing to recognize those limits.
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The Department of Health reported Friday that 125 more people in the state lost their lives to COVID-19, including 37 in the greater Tampa Bay region.
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The state's death count from COVID-19 shot up by 100 people Thursday, bringing the total to 19,112.
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Coronavirus continues its steady upward climb in Florida. With nearly 38,000 new cases this week, the state has added about 5,000 more new cases each week since mid-October.
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In a letter to HHS and governors, Sen. Rick Scott sought accountability on how many antigen tests have been distributed to each state and how states are parceling them out.
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The last time the statewide daily increase in infections was over 5,000 — not counting days where there were data issues — was September 1.
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The number of new cases reported Saturday in the greater Tampa Bay region – 957 – also was the first time since Aug. 15 that the total of new cases in the area surpassed 900.
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Assisted living facilities are slated to get 100,000 kits to test staff and visitors, and 180,000 are going to retirement communities, including Sun City Center.
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Testing will be at no cost to farmers, farmworkers and family members, with Hillsborough and Miami-Dade counties as initial participants.