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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Hydroxychloroquine, along with its counterpart chloroquine, has been revoked for use as an emergency treatmen [...]
WHO Changes Statement on Asymptomatic Spread of COVID-19, They Have No Idea
June 10, 2020
By: Staff Report
A day after the World Health Organization (WHO), suggested that asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is “very rare,” [...]
State of Florida & Home Depot Partner to Provide Three COVID-19 Testing Sites
June 9, 2020
By: Staff Report and floridiadisater.org
The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) announced that three COVID-19 tes [...]
WHO Says, Spread of COVID-19 in Most Asymptomatic Patients is ‘very rare,’
June 09, 2020
By: Staff Report
Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization official [...]
AdventHealth Says More than 25,000 Coronavirus Tests Unreliable in Central Florida
May 17, 2020
By: Staff Report
AdventHealth, who relies on third-party labs to provide test results, has terminated a contract with a lab after [...]
COVID-19 Confirmed Cases, By the Numbers and County
May 12, 2020
By: Staff Brief
The Florida Department of Health is issuing daily updates on the numbers of confirmed cases of the COVID [...]