For a moment in April, the Internet tried to cancel Florida. Photos showing crowds flocking to Jacksonville Beach amid the pandemic sent the hashtag #FloridaMorons trending on Twitter. The media spun scenes of ignorant spring breakers endangering themselves and others. Here was Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, joining neighboring state Georgia’s “experiment in human sacrifice,” as…
Florida’s surgeon general has acknowledged that a syndrome that attacks children and is associated with COVID-19 has surfaced in Florida, adding a scary new dimension to the battle against the coronavirus in the state.Surgeon General Scott Rivkees encouraged physicians and hospitals to make sure they report any suspected cases of what is known as a…
After five consecutive weeks of at least 300 reported deaths, fatalities from Sunday to Sunday dropped to 252, according to the Florida Department of Health. While the overall state death toll sits just shy of 2,000, the drop in weekly deaths mirrors what had already been several weeks of lower statewide positive COVID-19 test results.…
The latest coronavirus report from the Florida Department of Health added another 72 fatalities to raise the state death toll to 1,471. As Florida and other states across the U.S. began their first steps toward reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, one model used by the Trump administration severely shifted its projected deaths for both the…
Dan DeLuca, Fort Myers News-Press Published 6:14 a.m. ET May 4, 2020 | Updated 11:19 a.m. ET May 4, 2020 To provide our community with important public safety information, our newsroom is making stories related to the coronavirus free to read. To support important local journalism like this, please consider becoming a digital subscriber. We'll…
3 min read IN THIS DAY and age it can be easy to drift in and out while watching a TV show or movie. Everybody's focus is fractured, we're all overstimulated, and attention has become a currency. And if we're being honest, there are some shows or movies where you can look a away for
You probably don’t need a survey to tell you parents are stressed out right now, but in case you do: A recent government report found that 48% of parents say that their stress is “completely overwhelming” on most days—more than double what other adults report. Why am I mentioning this? The new Dietary Guidelines for
13 min read I'M STOOD IN the immigration queue at Düsseldorf airport, here to attend the Ed Sheeran Mathematics tour, one of the last stops in what has been an epic four-year journey for the 34-year-old. Selling 8.8 million tickets across 188 dates, it has become the fourth-highest grossing tour of all time, behind only