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Answers to questions posed about the omicron variant, as Orange County has the state's highest test positivity rate.

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Sarasota Memorial Hospital, which had not been allowing visitations, said it will now allow most patients to have two visitors. It also resumed nonemergency surgeries this week.

Sarasota Memorial Hospital, which had not been allowing visitations, said it will now allow most patients to have two visitors. It also resumed nonemergency surgeries this week.

AdventHealth The COVID pandemic "has really become a tale of two cities. You’ve got the vaccinated and unvaccinated” says Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer for AdventHealths seven-county Central Florida Division. Because of the recent case spike of unvaccinated patients, elective surgeries are deferred, visitors are limited and masks are required. But there is more than enough space and equipment to handle the increase. AdventHealth Central Florida has transitioned into "yellow st...

That’s 20 more patients than the hospital system had on Tuesday evening. But it still hasn’t reached the hospital system’s peak in January, when it reported around 900 patients in a single day.  “Our numbers continue to rise,” said Dr. Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer for AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division in a media briefing Thursday morning. “The rate of the increase is somewhat concerning. We are now seeing about the fastest rate of increase that we have seen througho...

News 6 hosts another COVID-19 Vaccine Day Phone bank, special coverage planned for June 4 Tags:  FILE - In this April 30, 2021 file photo, a pharmacist fills a syringe from a vial of the Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, COVID-19 vaccine at the Vaccine Village in Antwerp, Belgium.(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) ORLANDO, Fla. – The push to get the community vaccinated isn’t over yet. President Joe Biden set a goal to have 70% of all Americ...

You can call 888-436-6665 to get your COVID-19 vaccine questions from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday.

The biggest issues News 6 tackled during Vaccine Day Viewers submitted COVID-19 questions for health experts to answers Updated:  Tags:  Here are the biggest issues News 6 tackled during Vaccine Day ORLANDO, Fla. – For more than three hours on Friday, the phones didn’t stop ringing as News 6 viewers called in to get their COVID-19 vaccine questions answered by AdventHealth Orlando health care professionals. The Vaccine Day phone bank took place from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., all the while News...

AdventHealth survey finds Central Floridians falling for COVID-19 misinformation Orlando Sentinel 2 days ago Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel © Joe Burbank/Joe Burbank Registered Nurse Nancy Pfaff administers the vaccination against Covid-19 to Eric Walters at the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. About 32% of Central Floridians believe COVID-19 is “mostly made up” and exaggerated by the media, while 30% of those surveyed by AdventH...