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Mashup Score: 4
Shortly after six unvaccinated members of a Florida church died of COVID-19 within days of each other, a seventh infected church member has now died, the pastor said.
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Mashup Score: 108PolitiFact: DeSantis claim that COVID rise is due to illegal border crossings is ‘False’ - 3 year(s) ago
Immigrants and president Biden’s border policies are not to blame for the rise in COVID cases in Florida and elsewhere, the non-partisan fact-checking website PolitiFact determined Friday, despite claims to that effect by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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Mashup Score: 438At a critical moment for Florida, let’s take control of COVID this weekend and get vaccinated | Editorial - 3 year(s) ago
We’re at a tipping point, Florida, a moment when we can take control of the COVID virus or have it once again take control of our lives. The Orlando Sentinel’s plea for Floridians to choose this weekend to get a vaccine or become vaccine evangelists to help others make the right decision.
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Mashup Score: 0
The Florida Department of Health’s weekly COVID-19 report shows that reported deaths dropped back from the previous week while positive cases climbed by nearly 1,000, although numbers have been roughly close in the past four weeks.
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As Central Florida schools break for summer, mass vaccination sites shutter operations and mask mandates end, doctors and health officials worry that many eligible 12- to 17-year-olds will decline the shots, leaving them — and the grown-ups they live with — vulnerable. Here’s what parents should know.
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Mashup Score: 13
Eighteen physicians have signed a column urging the Florida Legislature to abandon its proposals to ban transgender girls from playing sports on girls teams.
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Mashup Score: 15Gov. Ron DeSantis bans all Florida businesses from requiring ‘vaccination passports’ in executive order - 3 year(s) ago
The order comes as some events and businesses had already started to implement some form of proof of vaccination, including a South Florida festival and the Miami Heat.It was also unclear how such an order would work with nationwide or international businesses such as theme parks, cruise lines and airlines.
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Mashup Score: 8Florida health experts dispute DeSantis supporters pushing COVID immunity through infection - 3 year(s) ago
“The most compassionate approach … is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk,” three of DeSantis’ panelists wrote in October. The declaration was blasted by the scientific community. In an open letter to the medical journal The Lancet, Deepti…
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Mashup Score: 1317Biden COVID team releases ‘previously hidden’ Florida report - 3 year(s) ago
A new and publicly released White House COVID-19 Team report shows the coronavirus infection rate in Florida fell 19% last week but deaths continued to climb. The report, released online, is part of an effort to “develop a shared understanding of the current status,” its authors said — in contrast to the Trump administration’s policy of releasing the information only to the states. The Orlando…
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Mashup Score: 2‘It was torture’: 11-year-old boy saved from abuse by server at Orlando restaurant, cops say - 3 year(s) ago
Flaviane Carvalho, a waitress at Mrs. Potato Restaurant, notified Orlando police about an 11-year-old boy who appeared to have been abused. Police later described the extent of the abuse as “torture.”
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