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US reports just 32K new COVID cases - the least since September - while Florida's daily infection rate falls lower than Michigan's OR NYC's despite the Sunshine State seeing a 16% rise in hospitalizations this month as variants take hold On Sunday, the U.S. recorded 32,065 new coronavirus cases, which is the lowest figure since September 8, when 26,387 new infections were reported Additionally, 279 deaths were reported, marking the seventeenth-straight day in a row that fatalities have been below 1,000 Forty-seven states are reporting steady or declining cases with just three states, Alabama...

For a few weeks in March, South Florida hospital workers took a breath and thought the state was on the right track with coronavirus cases. But in April, the situation shifted again and COVID hospitalizations are increasing.

The number of Florida seniors entering the hospital for COVID dropped sharply over the past month, an indication that the vaccination campaign begun in December has been effective in protecting the group most vulnerable to the disease.

Memorial Healthcare quickly vaccinating COVID-19 frontline workers Tags:  MIRAMAR, Fla. – Tuesday marks Day 2 of COVID-19 vaccinations for Memorial Healthcare System frontline workers, with the hospital saying it can inoculate 120 staff members each hour. “They’re tired. Some of them are working their fourth and fifth 12-hour shifts a week and they’re ready for this to be over,” Chief Nursing Executive Maggie Hansen said of the long battle against the virus. Nearly 20,000 doses of the new coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer arrived Monday morning to the Memorial Healthcare System in Br...

Where will Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine go when it gets to South Florida? Check out the fact sheet that patients will receive before they are given the vaccine Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Florida is expected to receive 179,400 doses of the vaccine, which will go to five Florida hospital systems, including Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami-Dade County and Memorial West in Broward county. Some of the doses arriving at Jackson Memorial will then continue on to 13 other hospitals in Miami-Dade County. 60,000 vials of the vaccine will go directly to Walgreens and CVS pharmacies throughout the ...