VENICE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new guidelines Tuesday, recommending masks for everyone in K-12 schools rega…
VENICE — Just weeks after Sarasota Memorial Hospital loosened its visitation rules, it’s tightening them again.
Only one of the 44 people currently hospitalized with coronavirus in Charlotte County had been vaccinated, Health Chief Joe Pepe said Tuesday.
VENICE — Parents can be forgiven if they’re scratching their heads about sending their kids back to school in a couple of weeks.
Most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots and doubt they would work against the aggre…
VENICE — When the state’s COVID-19 Weekly Situation Report, due out on Friday afternoons, is late, it’s usually a sign of bad news.
Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the sum…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Indonesia has converted nearly its entire oxygen production to medical use just to meet the demand from COVID-19 pati…
MISSION, Kan. — COVID-19 cases nearly tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation that is straining hospita…
NEW DELHI — India’s excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it …
SARASOTA — A month ago, the COVID-19 patient census at Sarasota Memorial Hospital was in the single digits.
ST. PETERSBURG — U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan said Monday he has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus even though he was fully vaccinated against…
VENICE — The number of COVID-19 cases in Florida more than doubled in the weeks from June 11 to July 2.
VENICE — With COVID-19 case numbers rising in much of the country because of the Delta variant, Dr. Celine Gounder said people have a simple c…
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The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and…
WASHINGTON — U.S. regulators on Monday added a new warning to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine about links to a rare and potentially d…
VENICE — When it was finally released, the state’s July 2 COVID-19 Weekly Situation Report showed a 35% increase in cases and a 1.4 percentage…
VENICE — Most of Florida’s COVID-19 numbers rose to the highest level in a month or more last week, according to the state’s Weekly Situation …
Economists at Florida Gulf Coast University found that as the percent of people who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 goes up in…
Editor’s Note: Florida’s Weekly Situation Report for June 25-July 1 had not been released by deadline.
VENICE — The 12-19 age group had the biggest increase in vaccinations over the last month, but the percentage of people in that age group vacc…
VENICE — The Florida Department of Health hasn’t said whether the Delta variant of COVID-19 is in Sarasota County, but there’s no reason to th…
SARASOTA — Sarasota Memorial Hospital has released a question and answer with Dr. Manuel Gordillo, its epidemiologist and infectious disease s…
VENICE — Florida’s took a bigger hit to its economy from COVID-19 than many states did — but it has bounced back more than most of them, too.
VENICE — To say that Wednesday’s budget workshop went swimmingly might be an understatement.
SARASOTA — In another step toward normality, Sarasota Memorial Hospital has resumed its HealthCast podcasts, which had been suspended due to t…
Editor’s Note: The report for June 11-17 was not released by deadline.
New pandemic cases and related deaths dropped in Charlotte, Sarasota and DeSoto counties in the last seven days, according to the Centers for …