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Lee Health, CDC urge COVID vaccines; DeSantis questions booster shots

Lee Health and the Centers for Disease Control continue to recommend that the public obtain the most up-to-date COVID vaccinations at a time when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis maintains the vaccines are not sufficiently proven to be effective. The remarks by DeSantis this past week followed a ...

3-day Tattoo Expo opens today in Fort Myers

Looking for some new ink or wanting to prospect the area’s best artists? This weekend, the inaugural Florida Gulf Coast Tattoo Expo takes place at the Caloosa Sound Convention Center from Friday through Sunday, celebrating the tattoo lifestyle and featuring more than 200 local, national, ...

Hospitalizations hit historic high

Local health officials on Wednesday detailed why hospital beds have become scarcer in recent weeks as an unprecedented number of patients are being treated. During a press conference at Gulf Coast Medical Center, Lee Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Iahn Gonsenhauser said hospitals are at ...

Scholastic’s ClassroomsCount helps educators build libraries

Scholastic's ClassroomsCount campaign is helping two teachers in the School District of Lee County, with one being a teacher whose classroom was hard hit by Hurricane Ian in Cape Coral. “The hurricane has proved to be constant readjustment and it is a process to find all of our teaching ...

Lee Health’s Curative COVID-19 testing sites are closing

Friday, Dec. 2, will be the last day of operations for Curative’s COVID-19 testing sites in Lee County. Lee Health partnered with Curative during the pandemic to create additional access to COVID testing for community members. The sites, which are set-up at Lee Health’s Lee Convenient Care locations in Fort Myers and Cape Coral, have served thousands in the region with free COVID testing during the past year. Anyone who wants to receive a COVID test on or before Dec. 2 can do so by making an appointment at www.curative.com. There are still a variety of COVID community testing ...