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UCF officials said the student was isolated after testing positive and contact tracing measures were taken.
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Reports suggest the White House may restrict domestic travel to control spread of COVID variants. Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Marco Rubio and a hospitality industry group are opposed.
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Health officials say a new variant of the coronavirus is spreading so quickly in Florida that it will become the state’s most dominant strain by March.
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The number of people tested across Florida surpassed 121,000 on Tuesday, a jump of more than 29,000 since Monday, according to the Florida Department of Health.
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One day you're worrying about the regular old coronavirus. Then — seemingly out of the blue — there are variants. Worrisome variants! How did they come to be? And why are they likely more contagious?
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The spread of new strains raises new questions as two COVID-19 vaccines continue their rollout across the U.S. and another vaccine candidate preps for regulatory review. Here's what you need to know.
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The CDC doesn't give a county breakdown, but on Thursday the state said the most cases were in Broward and Miami-Dade.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer for Johnson & Johnson, about the latest data on the efficacy of the company's COVID-19 vaccine.
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Newly discovered variants of COVID-19 in South Africa and Brazil could make the virus more infectious and may decrease the efficacy of vaccines.
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More transmissible forms of the coronavirus have emerged on three continents, and at least one is circulating across the U.S. But scientists are especially worried about a variant spreading in Brazil.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with biologists Pardis Sabeti and Sharon Peacock about how genomic sequencing was used in the U.K. to trace a new coronavirus variant and what the U.S. can learn from it.
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The variant that emerged in Britain was first detected in the state last week in a Martin County man. California has 26 cases of the mutated virus.