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Talk-show icon Larry King, who got his start in South Florida, reportedly hospitalized with COVID-19
Citing an unidentified person close to the family, CNN said the 87-year-old King is undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
- A member of Florida’s House of Representatives is asking Palm Beach County to shut down President Trump’s private club after citing a video circulating on social media showing dozens of people at a New Year’s Eve party without masks.
- Florida posted 31,518 new COVID-19 cases and 217 more coronavirus deaths on Saturday. The latest numbers are a two-day total after Florida did not released any information on New Year’s Day. The state has now reported 1,354,833 cases since the pandemic began.
- Parents soon will receive letters saying their children are failing with virtual learning during the COVID pandemic, It's still up to parents whether their children continue their educations at 比特币交易价格行情home.
- Determined revelers clogged the streets of South Florida’s entertainment districts to ring in the new year.
- The state made a similar call on Christmas, and two days worth of COVID data was released on Dec. 26, the day following the holiday.
- From West Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale to the Miami River, developers and merchants are opening new stores and restaurants to serve edgy consumers who don't want to mingle in crowded malls and streets any more.
- Many of the elderly — the most at risk for COVID-19 — have remained isolated from children, grandchildren and friends for the better part of a year. They’ve become paranoid of everyone who breathes. Walking down the supermarket aisle or standing in line at Marshall’s feels like a life or death choice.
- The first case of the new, highly-contagious COVID-19 variant has been confirmed in Florida. The Florida Department of Health announced the case on Twitter, and said the person infected with the variant is a man in his 20s in Martin County with no history of travel.
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Talk-show icon Larry King, who got his start in South Florida, reportedly hospitalized with COVID-19
Citing an unidentified person close to the family, CNN said the 87-year-old King is undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. - Former CNN talk show host Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for more than a week, the news channel reported Saturday.
- A member of Florida’s House of Representatives is asking Palm Beach County to shut down President Trump’s private club after citing a video circulating on social media showing dozens of people at a New Year’s Eve party without masks.
- Florida posted 31,518 new COVID-19 cases and 217 more coronavirus deaths on Saturday. The latest numbers are a two-day total after Florida did not released any information on New Year’s Day. The state has now reported 1,354,833 cases since the pandemic began.
- A diminished sense of smell, called anosmia, has emerged as one of the telltale symptoms of COVID-19.
- “It was like she was experiencing a movie, like ‘Kill Bill.'"
- Police officers issued at least 1,200 fines, including 800 under virus-related rules.
- Parents soon will receive letters saying their children are failing with virtual learning during the COVID pandemic, It's still up to parents whether their children continue their educations at 比特币交易价格行情home.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a tumultuous 2020, with his response to the coronavirus pandemic eating into his once-high approval numbers. And now the Republican governor faces 2021 without his stalwart ally President Donald Trump in the White House and Democrat Joe Biden taking over.
- The new guidance contradicts guidelines in the U.S., where the CDC has noted that the ized COVID-19 vaccines “are not interchangeable."
- Women have witnessed the pandemic from a miserably close angle. They have been left behind with family responsibilities, financial burdens, worries about their children’s trauma and their own crushing loss and guilt.
- Overflow patients were moved to hospital hallways and gift shops, even a cafeteria. Refrigerated trucks were on standby.
- Determined revelers clogged the streets of South Florida’s entertainment districts to ring in the new year.
- ities in Belgium say a 27th elderly person has died in an outbreak at a nursing 比特币交易价格行情home from a super-spreading St. Nick party last month.
- The state made a similar call on Christmas, and two days worth of COVID data was released on Dec. 26, the day following the holiday.
- The most famous doctor in China was on an urgent mission.
- From West Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale to the Miami River, developers and merchants are opening new stores and restaurants to serve edgy consumers who don't want to mingle in crowded malls and streets any more.
- Many of the elderly — the most at risk for COVID-19 — have remained isolated from children, grandchildren and friends for the better part of a year. They’ve become paranoid of everyone who breathes. Walking down the supermarket aisle or standing in line at Marshall’s feels like a life or death choice.
- This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with many bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget.
- The first case of the new, highly-contagious COVID-19 variant has been confirmed in Florida. The Florida Department of Health announced the case on Twitter, and said the person infected with the variant is a man in his 20s in Martin County with no history of travel.
- The chaotic administration of the first dose of COVID vaccines in Florida has led to concerns about how people will receive their second dose — and if there is enough vaccine to go around.
- ities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of vaccine.
- These are of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media.
- David Perdue was forced into quarantine Thursday in the 比特币交易价格行情home stretch of Georgia’s high-stakes Senate runoffs.
- Florida reported 17,192 cases of COVID-19 Thursday, ending the year with a new state record for the number of cases reported in a single day. The state reported another 127 deaths.
- Here are the answers to some of your biggest questions about COVID-19 vaccinations.
- Community leaders and local celebrities tied on their aprons to serve up socially-distanced soup to go for a drive-thru edition of the fifth annual Empty Bowls Delray Beach on Dec. 5 at Trinity Lutheran Church & School.
- One issue overshadows everything else about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ two-year tenure. For mishandling and politicizing Florida’s response to the greatest challenge of our times, the COVID-19 pandemic, DeSantis deserves a D-minus on his mid-term report card.
- The race to vaccinate millions of Americans is off to a slower, messier start than public health officials and leaders of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed had expected.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ controversial communications director has resigned. Fred Piccolo made national headlines after a highly criticized tweet about COVID victims. The next day, he deleted his personal Twitter account.
- Simla is an unlikely place for a virus variant only recently detected in the United Kingdom to turn up.
- Scientists do not know how widely the new mutant may have spread in the United States. But the answer to that question will color virtually every aspect of the response: hospital treatment, community lockdowns, school closures and more.
- Imposters claiming to work for Florida's largest utility are persuading customers to wire them money to cover unpaid bills, even when the customers are not behind on their payments.
- Nationwide, 298 law enforcement officers and dogs were considered to have died in the line of duty, more than double the 148 that died in 2019.
- Dr. Drew Pinsky recovering from positive COVID-19 diagnosis
- China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
- Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks was all but dead Wednesday after McConnell got through with it.
- Broward County appealed a federal court ruling that stops the county from closing bars and nightclubs overnight.
- With his decision to jump five million older Floridians to the front of the Covid-19 vaccine line, Gov. Ron DeSantis has over-promised and under-delivered. Now he must fix this problem of his own making.
- Frustrated South Florida seniors jammed phone lines and crashed the health department website on Wednesday as they tried to make appointments to get for a COVID vaccine. Broward Health stopped taking appointments by noon, saying it had reached its vaccine capacity through February.
- California on Wednesday announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, offering a strong indication that the infection is spreading more widely in the United States.
- Louisiana’s eight-member congressional delegation called Luke Letlow’s death devastating. As condolences poured in, many officials focused on the pandemic’s deadly toll.
- Here's a guide to outdoor concerts, theater, parties, experiences and events around South Florida.
- Bars, clubs — and partiers — are adjusting on the fly, but are no less determined to be done with 2020.
- Dawn Wells of "Gilligan's Island" is dead from COVID-19.
- Florida reports 13,871 new COVID cases, the highest since the peak in July.
- Steven and Nancy Iscowitz own a condo at Palmetto Place at Mizner Park. They claim the association deactivated their key fobs, preventing them from accessing the building’s common areas, in order to confine their movements after the couple tested positive for COVID-19
- As the virus advanced on the nation and spared not a single community, it also inflamed the difficulties that many families already were enduring in pre-pandemic times: Gun violence, hunger, poverty.
- Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs provided some coronavirus relief in a Miami neighborhood on Tuesday, handing out $50 bills amid a crowd of hundreds.
- The vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca is expected to be relied on in many countries because of its low cost and the fact that it can be kept in refrigerators.
- Nearly a year into the pandemic, it’s clear that recovering from COVID-19′s initial onslaught can be an arduous, uneven journey. Now, studies reveal that a significant subset of patients are having to return to hospitals, sometimes repeatedly, with complications triggered by the disease or by the body’s efforts to defeat the virus.
- A Chinese pharmaceutical company said on Wednesday that an early analysis of clinical trial results showed that one of its coronavirus vaccines was effective, an announcement that sent a positive signal for the global rollout of Chinese vaccines but lacked crucial details.
- COVID-19 wreaked havoc with their lives. Now, musicians battle another epidemic: addiction
- The Brazilian Festival found a new 比特币交易价格行情home in Fort Lauderdale and held a scaled-down event Dec. 12-13. The event typically attracts up to 20,000 people, but the crowd was limited to 1,500 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Luke Letlow, Louisiana’s newest Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office.