COVID-19

More young birder groups are popping up across the country for teens and tweens who enjoy getting outdoors together to gawk at wildlife.

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

Anyone who got sick with COVID-19 during the summer wave in South Florida has some protection against a future infection, but not full protection against germs spreading in fall and winter. Infectious disease experts recommend what shots to get now.

There's a new bulletin from Florida's surgeon general. Vaccine experts and historians interviewed for this article can’t remember another state health leader urging residents to avoid an FDA-approved vaccine.

The state agency advises people to skip the shot because it doesn’t target the current dominant variant. A USF epidemiologist says it will still be effective but suggests first asking whether you need the booster.

With COVID-19 case rates rising in Florida, vaccine levels remain low. Experts say our relationship with the virus has changed. And that’s leaving them concerned.

COVID-19 cases are once again recording a summer spike with some of the highest weekly case reports seen this year. But what is our relationship with COVID four years after the pandemic outbreak?

The state Supreme Court on weighed whether a University of Florida graduate student could seek to require the school to refund money for services that were not provided during a COVID-19 campus shutdown in 2020.

False claims that COVID-19 vaccines cause deaths and other diseases such as cancer are still prevalent despite multiple studies showing the vaccines saved lives and do not cause cancers.

A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts. The debate began after Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives announced the mandatory use of face masks following a rise in COVID-19 cases.

Experts say there is no hard evidence that infection is greater in people who have had boosters.

Latinos are still more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID — so doctors and activists hope younger, more educated voices can convince the vulnerable to get the shots.