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Florida on Thursday ramped up plans to vaccinate seniors for COVID-19 by publishing two emergency rules that require nursing homes and assisted living facilities to allow representatives from the state health department, CVS and Walgreens into the facilities.

A federal advisory committee to the CDC voted Tuesday on guidelines for who should get COVID-19 vaccines first. The committee decided to prioritize health care workers and nursing home residents.

This post will be updated today, Monday, Nov. 9, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

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More COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted to allow children of all ages to visit their families at long-term-care facilities, said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday. He said it’s time for patients “to be reunited with their loved ones.”

The AARP online site, which looks at nursing-home data for four weeks ending Sept. 20, shows that 1.38 of every 200 nursing home residents in Florida died from COVID-19. Nationally, about one out of every 200 nursing home residents died from COVID-19.

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In recent days, the DeSantis administration has announced it is eliminating state-supported every-other-week testing of workers in long-term care facilities and that it is shuttering 23 COVID-19 nursing facilities dedicated to residents who are battling the virus and cannot be properly isolated in facilities where they normally live.

As COVID-19 has spread, the organizations and regulators responsible for ensuring the safety of health-care facilities and providers have run into a conundrum when travel and face-to-face encounters have been nixed.

This post will be updated today, Friday, September 4, and through the weekend with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

A panel conversation with the head of a retirement community, our healthcare reporter, a senior couple and a registered nurse who's mom is in an Assisted Living Facility about elder care during the pandemic.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he will allow visitors into nursing homes and assisted living facilities, nearly six months after the state blocked visitation during the first wave of coronavirus infections.