Cindy Krischer Goodman | South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Broward County joins Miami-Dade as the only two counties in Florida with moderate risk levels rather than low ones.

Florida is scrambling to prepare for the flood of calls expected when the country rolls out a three-digit suicide hotline this summer.

The boards of South and North Broward Hospital Districts voted independently to direct their CEOs to put together workgroups that will bring ideas forward for partnerships and collaboration.

As of Friday, 2,418 people were in Florida hospitals with COVID, a decline from January and early February. Yet, that admissions number is still twice as high as the count at the end of November when about Florida’s COVID hospital census hovered at about 1,300.

While COVID-19 in pets is a rare occurrence, veterinarians now know it can happen. Pets worldwide, including cats and dogs, have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, mostly after close contact with people with COVID-19.

At least a million more Floridians likely will get infected with the highly contagious omicron variant by the end of January.

As the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida rose to an all-time high on Wednesday, the state’s hospital systems started making plans to suspend elective procedures.

Although you didn’t have to pay anything for the shots, the fees paid by insurance companies and the federal government put as much as $150 million in the pockets of Florida pharmacies, grocery stores and private medical practices.

Broward Health, one of the county’s largest health systems, has chosen Shane Strum, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ chief of staff, to become its new CEO.

New questions are being raised about an unexplained gap in death reporting in the days leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3. The pause in reporting long-backlogged deaths resulted in fewer COVID-19 deaths being reported in daily counts as Floridians headed to the polls.

The administration suppressed unfavorable facts, dispensed dangerous misinformation, dismissed public health professionals, and promoted the views of scientific dissenters who supported the governor’s approach to the disease.

Alberto Moscoso, the chief public information officer for the Florida Department of Health throughout the pandemic, bowed out Nov. 6 amid a reshuffling of personnel at the state agency. He would not elaborate on why he left, or where he was going.