Verónica Zaragovia
Health Care Reporter
Verónica Zaragovia was born in Cali, Colombia, and grew up in South Florida. She’s been a lifelong WLRN listener and is proud to cover health care for the station. Verónica has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master's degree in journalism. For many years, Veronica lived out of a suitcase (or two) in New York City, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, D.C., San Antonio and Austin, where she worked as the statehouse and health care reporter with NPR member station KUT.
In 2016, she received a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship and moved to Germany’s capital city of Berlin where she lived for several years, working as a freelance reporter and radio instructor to American college students at the Center for International Educational Exchange (CIEE). In between that time, she also spent six months in Colombia, reporting on the peace treaty between the Colombian government and the former FARC guerrilla group, with the support of a grant from the Pulitzer Center.
Verónica speaks English and Spanish fluently and can converse in French, German and Hebrew. She loves warm weather and friendly, diverse people, and that’s why Miami will always be home.
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People are wondering whether vaccines are safe, how to avoid a COVID-19 infection when one person in the house is vaccinated and others are not, and have concerns about unequal access to the vaccines, especially for Black residents of Florida. Join us on Facebook Live to ask all of your questions! -
Several CVS pharmacies in South Florida will start offering COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older this week. These are part of the federal government’s partnership with states.
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Here in Florida, more than 30,000 people have died from COVID-19. That is not just a number — it represents family members, friends, neighbors and coworkers, and we’ve been hearing from the people who loved them. Now, Angela and Joanna Moore tell the story of their mother, Patsy Moore, who died from the disease last August — at 79 years old.
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We have listed advice below on how to go about securing your second appointment in South Florida. This guidance will likely change and we'll continue to update this post as we receive new information.
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By the time Lilia Francois gets behind the wheel, a school has tried everything else to locate the child missing from class.
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The South Florida Health Foundation has a roughly $162 million endowment to help fund its decades-long work to make health care more equal and accessible to low income people. Now it has new leadership to carry out its work, including a new president, Loreen Chant, who comes to the foundation from Easterseals South Florida.
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Contact tracers help stop the spread of the coronavirus that develops into COVID-19 by tracking down anybody who comes into contact with someone who tests positive for the disease. Now, with the help of grant funding, Miami Beach has seven tracers focused on helping the businesses and staff of the city.
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Some hospitals, like Memorial Pembroke, are treating patients with antibodies if they have COVID-19 and are at risk of becoming seriously ill. The catch is you need to start this treatment when you have mild or moderate symptoms to prevent the onset of serious illness.
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Fewer people were vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus in South Florida over the past week than the week before. Meantime, infections continue growing and the death toll keeps climbing. This has been a week of falling vaccinations and rising infections.
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Fewer people were vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus in South Florida over the past week than the week before. Meantime, infections continue growing and the death toll keeps climbing. This has been a week of falling vaccinations and rising infections.
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Florida has been getting international attention for vaccinating tourists against COVID-19, while seniors who live here still struggle to get appointments. Now the state is urging providers to require proof of state residency, but some legal experts say the people left out are far more important to protect with a vaccine than the tourists.
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A rheumatologist in South Florida seeks volunteers for a double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study to test a drug that would treat COVID-19 long-hauler syndrome.
