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COVID-19 Cases Climb, But Is the Virus Weakening?
June 22, 2020
By: Staff Report
GENOA - An Italian based infectious disease doctor, believes the COVID-19 virus has become less danger [...]
FDA Issues Hand Sanitizer Recall
June 22, 2020
By Sarah McCormick
TAMPA – The Food and Drug Administration is urging consumers to check their hand sanitizer supply to see i [...]
COVID-19 Update for Pasco and Hillsborough Counties
June 22, 2020
By Sarah McCormick
TAMPA - The Florida Department of Health has updated its daily COVID-19 case count with the following informat [...]
First Lady Casey DeSantis Highlights State Agencies’ Mental Health Response During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
June 21, 2020
By: Staff Report
First Lady encourages all Floridians, including health care workers and first responders, to take advantage of f [...]
17 Year Old Pasco County Teen Dies From COVID-19
June 20, 2020
By: Sarah McCormick
PASCO COUNTY Fla. - The Florida Department of Health reported Saturday that a 17- year old Pasco County t [...]
Remembered- COVID-19 Deaths in Pasco County
May 27, 2020
By: Kimberly Moore, Special to The Free Press
DADE CITY – Dwight Sawinski, 73, was rushed to the hospital on May 11th with a fever [...]
Medical Examiner Case Summaries Show Earliest COVID Patients Sent Home or Not Tested
June 20, 2020By Kimberly C. Moore- Special to The Free Press
TAMPA -- Birdie Eileen Williams Underwood, 71, devoted her life to teaching elementar [...]
Locally the COVID-19 Uptick Continues
June 18, 2020
By: Deborah Childress
The big-picture COVID-19 case trend for Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk counties indicates a considerable upt [...]
COVID-19 Florida Sets New Record For Most New Cases In a Day
June 17, 2020
By Staff Report
Coronavirus cases are spiking, but hospitalizations and deaths are trending downward. Hillsborough County health [...]
FDA Pulls Hydroxychloroquine Citing Cardiac Concerns
June 15, 2020
By: Sarah McCormick
Hydroxychloroquine, along with its counterpart chloroquine, has been revoked for use as an emergency treatmen [...]