Local health officials on Wednesday detailed a rise in new cases of COVID-19 in the community over the last few weeks and spoke of new challenges with winter months on the horizon. Lee Health President and CEO Dr. Larry Antonucci said while Southwest Florida is not seeing the high volume of ...
COVID By the Numbers As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, there are 816,700 total cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Florida, an increase of 4,637 since FDOH's last update Monday morning More than 66,300 test results were reported to the Department of Health on Monday, Nov. 2. Of those reported tests, 7.58% ...
Local health officials on Thursday addressed the growing number of COVID-19 patients being treated in the community. Lee Health President and CEO Dr. Larry Antonucci said the county’s leading healthcare system over the last few weeks has seen “a slow rise in both our positivity rate and ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Fort Myers on Thursday to announce a loosening of restrictions regarding visits to long-term care facilities. At a roundtable at Amavida Living, DeSantis said he was ordering the Department of Emergency Management to remove the prohibition on nursing home visitations ...
Local health officials are urging the public to get vaccinated for the flu while COVID-19 continues to be present in the community. Millions of Americans contract the flu each year with hundreds of thousands hospitalized and tens of thousands dying from flu-related causes. Lee Health ...
Each week through the General Election, The Breeze will ask the candidates for Cape Coral City Council an issue-related question. In the interest of fairness, each candidate is limited to the same amount of space, about 100 words, for their response. This week's question is: The city of Cape ...
