Florida Department of Health

In their 2021-22 spending request, agency officials make it clear that Florida has been stretched thin due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other recent outbreaks, including Zika and hepatitis A.

For the second straight day, the rate of people testing positive for the first time for COVID-19 was above 6% — it's also the highest single-day positivity rate since August 25.

A DeSantis spokesman says the governor’s office was mulling whether to move to “a modified schedule like all the other reports of infectious diseases.” Two Democratic state senators disagree with the idea.

Speaker Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes, says death rates may have been inflated due to incorrect data.

The issue resulted in the state not reporting coronavirus cases on Saturday.

Fatalities related to the disease have touched families and communities throughout the state, from massive Miami-Dade to sparsely populated Liberty County.

Another 7,569 new coronavirus cases were reported in Florida Tuesday. But more than half of them were among 75,000 older test results that a leading company turned in on Monday.

The Florida Department of Health reported Saturday that 3,197 people tested positive for the coronavirus since Friday, bringing the total number of cases statewide to 619,003.

A Florida Department of Health report that became public on Friday ordered the suspension of a Boca Raton compounding pharmacy because it  “constitutes an…