CORONAVIRUS

Being pregnant is challenging for any woman’s body, but imagine being pregnant while fighting COVID-19.

President Joe Biden and the Senate's Republican leader have now had three COVID-19 shots each.

Florida’s state workers are struggling 18 months into the pandemic.

As the Delta variant continues to spread across the United States, some older people may be wondering what they can do to stay safe.

COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are going to start being offered to specific groups in Southeast Georgia starting Monday.

Federal officials say a ferret has tested positive for COVID-19 in Florida.

Employees of a Florida county where vaccination for COVID-19 is now required for all workers won’t be fired for refusing to get the shots.

Florida’s newly appointed surgeon general on Wednesday signed new protocols allowing parents to decide whether their children should quarantine or stay in school if they are asymptomatic after being exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.

Florida’s newly announced protocols that allow parents to decide whether their children should quarantine or stay in school if they are asymptomatic after being exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 could put many more students at risk of becoming infected, according to Dr. Sunil Joshi, an immunologist with Baptist Health.

Dance, baseball, swimming, school, homework and a vaccine trial? That’s the Hendricks family, with five kids ranging from 15 months to 13 years old.

A Cleveland Clinic study has found a connection between COVID-19 and brain changes commonly seen in Alzheimer‘s disease.

This article includes the most recent data from the Georgia Department of Public Health on cases of COVID-19 in the state.

Getting both the flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Jacksonville Public Library’s main location downtown has been closed for a month. It’s where monoclonal antibody treatments are being given.

Pointing to a need to “minimize the amount of time students are removed from in-person learning,” the Florida Department of Health on Wednesday issued a revised rule that gives parents more authority to decide whether children go to school after being exposed to people who have COVID-19.

The mayor of a small coastal Georgia town has died from complications due to COVID-19.

The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) said Tuesday it will wait on recommendations from the CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) before releasing a plan to administer booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Georgia.

President Joe Biden is betting on millions more rapid, at-home tests to help curb the latest deadly wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Senior politicians in Germany have expressed shock over the weekend killing of a young gas station clerk who asked a customer to wear a face mask.

President Joe Biden has used his first address before the U.N. General Assembly to summon allies to quickly address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses.

For the second year in a row, COVID-19 policy will be front and center in the State Capitol.

Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11.

For the first time, Pfizer has shared early data for their much anticipated children’s COVID-19 vaccine, which was studied in kids ages 5 to 11.

There was concern that funding to operate five free COVID-19 testing sites in Duval County would end in two weeks.

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000.

A new study shows that the Moderna vaccine is more effective at keeping people out of the hospital with COVID-19 than Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer vaccines.

Another Georgia city is offering a cash incentive to encourage city employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The doctor says there should be a focus on getting people their initial doses of the vaccine, giving vaccine boosters to those who need it and getting kids under 12 the shot as well.

A disaster relief organization founded by actor Sean Penn is boosting Georgia’s drive to inoculate people against the coronavirus.

The state Department of Health added 75,906 new COVID-19 cases this week, bringing the state’s total to nearly 3.5 million since the pandemic began. But deaths from the August surge continue to rise.

Florida’s unemployment rate dropped by a tenth of a percent in August, down to 5 percent.

As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in much of the U.S., public health leaders have approved health care rationing in Idaho and parts of Alaska and Montana.

“Severe” or “desperate” that’s how more than half of the country’s school districts describe their bus driver shortage.

While Florida looks to round the corner on administering 100,000 monoclonal antibody treatments to people with COVID-19, Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged Thursday to “fight like hell” to continue receiving the treatments as the federal government this week took control over distribution of the drugs.

Health officials say the state of Florida has surpassed 50,000 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began.

Pine Island Academy, which opened this year in Nocatee, has been shaken by the deaths of two employees, including a teacher who died of COVID-19.

As the delta variant of the coronavirus caused Florida to become a hotspot for COVID-19 in late July and August, the state’s nursing homes also felt the brunt.

Florida will start issuing $5,000 fines Thursday to businesses, schools and government agencies that require people to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.

This week, county-level COVID-19 deaths statistics have been made available for the first time since Florida shut down its daily COVID-19 dashboard in June.

When children get COVID-19, they could face other serious health issues as a result, including what’s known multisystem inflammatory syndrome -- or MIS-C.

There’s another trend that medical experts are warning people not to use to treat COVID-19.

Georgia’s state epidemiologist says the number of COVID-19 cases in the state remains high and that still creates a significant risk the disease could spread through communities.

The mayor of Gainesville on Tuesday said he’s keeping a COVID-19 vaccine requirement in place for city workers.

After months, data from the state of Florida of deaths attributed to COVID-19 is again being broken down by county, as first reported by the Sun Sentinel.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says people who decide not to get a COVID-19 vaccine might be making the wrong choice, but he defends their right to choose.

Daily case averages are at their lowest point since late July and hospitalizations are lower than they’ve been since early August.

The debate over COVID-19 vaccinations continues.

Loved ones, community members and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday paid their respects to Union County Sheriff’s Correctional Officer Stacy Crawford.

The St. Johns County School District has hired a staffing company that will help with contact tracing needs in schools.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on required masking of students is being fought in the courts, but in the meantime, some school districts in the state are still imposing a mask mandate.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is hopeful that younger children will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend what was expected to be a more “normal” school year, an ad hoc committee of the Duval County School Board met Monday morning to talk about updating the district’s permanent policy for dealing with communicable diseases.

Glynn County Public School Students are swapping their virtual classes, to in-person classes starting on Monday.