SARASOTA — Sarasota Memorial Hospital is participating in a COVID-19 clinical trial involving "designer" antibodies that are "the most promisi…
Here are the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics available for Florida and our area counties, as of 11:30 a.m. July 10. The next update …
NEW YORK — Though most of the films that have debuted during the pandemic never got to screen for packed movie houses, “Palm Springs” had the…
MIAMI — The rate of daily coronavirus deaths reported by the state of Florida has begun to tick up again for the first time since May, a trend…
SAO PAULO — Two days after being diagnosed with COVID-19, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made an online broadcast from the presidentia…
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials won't revise their coronavirus guidelines for reopening schools despite criticism from President Donal…
MIAMI — An American longline fishing boat captain has been in jail for a month after he was detained in the British Virgin Islands on June 8 f…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Packed elevators and crowded committee rooms. Legislators sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the House and Senate floor. Pe…
SPOKANE, Wash. — David and Lucinda Anitok never expected to shut themselves in a hotel room, caught between their kids and COVID-19 and allegi…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Forget about up-close “meet-and-greet" sessions with Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck when Walt Disney World parks reopen. The…
ENGLEWOOD — Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte and Englewood Community Hospital and Doctors Hospital of Sarasota have once again rest…
Charlotte County on Tuesday will be the next local government in Florida to officially consider a face mask ordinance.
Elliot Truslow went to a CVS drugstore on June 15 in Tucson, Arizona, to get tested for the coronavirus. The drive-thru nasal swab test took l…
MIAMI — Florida’s Department of Health on Thursday confirmed 8,935 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 232,718. There were al…
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SAN FRANCISCO — An outbreak of coronavirus infections tied to parties connected to fraternities at the University of California, Berkeley is i…
Young people socializing in local bars and restaurants may be the biggest driving force behind Charlotte County’s surge in coronavirus cases, …
Factors smaller than a cell and as large as the planet are at play when a virus leaps from an animal to a human.
Elliot Truslow went to a CVS drugstore on June 15 in Tucson, Arizona, to get tested for the coronavirus. The drive-thru nasal swab test took l…
Wine has always been one of our planet’s great social connectors, as well as a symbol of generosity, pleasure, and celebration.
PUNTA GORDA — After hours of comments from residents on both sides of the issue, the Punta Gorda City Council unanimously approved a new manda…
UNITED NATIONS — The leading U.S. infectious disease expert says he is cautiously optimistic that a coronavirus vaccine with some degree of ef…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that a decision on reopening California schools this fall will be made by local educatio…
The old men live in cramped spaces and breathe the same ventilated air. Many are frail, laboring with heart disease, liver and prostate cancer…
HOUSTON (AP) — A few weeks after more than 100 people attended her husband's funeral, the widow herself was on the brink of death.
SOUTH VENICE — A worker at Publix in Venice Village Shoppes tested positive for COVID-19.
LOS ANGELES — The coronavirus outbreak continued to worsen in California this week, with 9,500 infections recorded on Tuesday — the most new c…
The United States has reached another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, with the number of confirmed infections surging past 3 milli…
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will release updated guidelines for reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic…