Verónica Zaragovia
Health Care ReporterVerónica 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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The HistoryMiami museum took down items on the Surfside memorial wall, that honored the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse, to care for them and preserve them as the peak of hurricane season looms. -
Like much of the United States, South Florida is facing a shortage of doctors who will retire in the coming years. Some are facing burnout from grueling COVID-19 work, and there’s especially a need for more Black doctors.
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Pregnant people have suppressed immune systems, so South Florida doctors say they need to consider the urgency of getting vaccinated against COVID-19, particularly given that the delta variant of the coronavirus is so contagious.
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On Monday, Aug. 30, HistoryMiami will take items along a tennis court fence that serves as a memorial to the victims of the Champlain Towers South Collapse to preserve and care for them until they find a permanent home.
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Now that the Food and Drug Administration has fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, South Florida health care experts hope to see more vaccine mandates and more people getting their shots. Facilities that provide health care, like hospitals and nursing homes, don’t usually require staff to get vaccines that only have emergency use authorization.
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Hospitals around the country need more nurses. Here in Florida, they're leaving for higher wages around the state and country, just as the state has a growing number of hospitals reporting staff shortages.
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Just as cruising out of Florida's ports restarts, the state leads the nation in COVID-19 cases, causing concerns that ships will be docked once again.
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Rabbi Yossi Harlig is a chaplain with the Miami Dade County Police Department and director of the Chabad Center of Kendall/Pinecrest. He spent weeks in Surfside, working with the police officers, rescuers and families of victims.
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The search effort in Surfside, Fla., has ended. Residents and officials are debating what will happen to the site of the condo collapse, including if developers should be allowed to build there.
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Four weeks ago, the Champlain Towers South condo building collapsed in Surfside, in early hours of June 24. Since then, 97 people have been identified as dead. WLRN has spent the past few weeks in Surfside speaking to folks who lost loved ones in the catastrophe, people who rushed to help in the aftermath or who’ve played a role in helping the community grieve.
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Four weeks ago, part of the the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside collapsed, killing at least 97 people. Since, then search teams have worked day and night to clear the land of building parts and debris. Now a Miami-Dade County circuit judge is hearing arguments about what should happen to the oceanfront property.
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Life forever changed in Surfside, Fla. when a condo building collapsed last month. Weeks later, the beachfront town is trying to heal itself as it helps families affected by the tragedy.
