Along with almost 100,000 dead in Florida from COVID-19, the virus' imprint on schools, workplaces and politics lingers after five years.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis today urged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to halt its recommendation of COVID-19 vaccines for children while calling on the Florida Legislature to permanently ban mRNA vaccine mandates and enshrine vaccination status protections in the state’s Patient’s Bill of

COVID-19 divided communities over politics, public health and personal liberties. How that played out in Southwest Florida.

One of the first two cases of COVID-19 reported in Florida came in County. The pandemic had lasting implications for the region.

Moderated by Director of the Pandemic Center Jennifer Nuzzo, the School of Public Health and Warren Alpert Medical School co-hosted “The Next Global Pandemic: How ready are we?” on March 5. The event commemorated the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nuzzo said in an interview with The Herald.

Two elected officials who helped with masking rules and vaccination, and a former school board member, tell us their thoughts.

The Treasure Coast population has been growing for a while, but it shot up in St. Lucie County following the start of the pandemic.

Five years ago, the deadly virus COVID-19 brought fear and death to Jacksonville-area hospitals. But they overcame multiple challenges to save lives.

Dustin S. McCabe, 49, of Ocala was found guilty of seaman’s manslaughter, providing false statements to the Coast Guard and Covid-19 pandemic relief fraud.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant political, social, and economic changes in Florida. Gov. DeSantis gained considerable power during the pandemic, using executive orders to implement ...

was deployed three times – totaling 363 days – during the pandemic. The first came on March 20, 2020 and lasted four days as the state of Florida needed to assess the COVID-19 outbreak at ...