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Florida Department of Health State health officials reported 11,423 new COVID-19 cases, Thursday, for a total of 1,687,594 infections. The Florida Department of Health reported 202 coronavirus-related deaths, Jan. 28, increasing the statewide death toll to 26,456 fatalities. The latest single-day positivity rate reported by the Florida Division of Emergency Management stood at 9.58% on Wednesday. Over the past two weeks the single-day positivity rate has ranged between 8.37% and 15.84%. The Agency for Health Care Administration reports that as of this morning 6,512 patients are admitted to ho...

In his four decades as a minister, R. B. Holmes Jr. has never dealt with so much death. More than 24,000 Floridians have died from COVID-19, including more than a few of the flock that Holmes shepherds at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee. “No one is immune from this,” Holmes told CT. “The thief is winning. The virus is a thief.” The black pastor is especially concerned that the coronavirus has disproportionately impacted his community and other communities of racial minorities around the state. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Plans Needed for People of Color to Be Vaccinated Jan. 19, 2021 -- Groups nationwide are looking for ways to secure coronavirus vaccines for people of color who have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic, according to USA Today. States that rank highly on COVID-19 vulnerability indexes, in particular, have fallen behind on vaccinations for high-risk groups that need them most. In Nevada, for instance, several nonprofits focused on specific racial and ethnic groups created the One Community Campaign to educate at-risk groups about COVID-19 and vaccines. One of the nonprofits — the ...

Amid access hurdles, grassroots efforts underway to get COVID-19 vaccine to at-risk people of color Nada Hassanein and Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY How COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting people of color Replay Video Donis Hernández spent three hours Wednesday trying to register his 77-year-old father for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment. The Las Vegas construction worker and his dad have been waiting for this moment. Hernández works at construction sites where four of his co-workers have contracted COVID-19. He worries about his dad, who lives with him. But when he fin...

Chuck Henry, health officer for the Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County, told county commissioners Wednesday morning that the state is working on several pilot reservation systems that are supposed to be ready soon. The project, he said, has been delayed because of technical difficulties.  Henry said that locally the county is looking at using Everbridge, which is already used for emergency response. That system would allow residents to use the phone or a computer to register. People are then placed in an “electronic line” and when vaccines come in, those in line can be pull...