Month: November 2020

TAMPA — Tampa General will be one of the first hospitals in Florida to receive the coronavirus vaccine, a spokesman confirmed Thursday. The hospital did not immediately release any additional information, but news reports suggest it will be one of five hospitals throughout the state to begin receiving shipments next month. The four others are: AdventHealth Orlando, UF Health Jacksonville, Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood and Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. The first shipments are expected to arrive in mid-December, followed by another in January, the newspaper said. And the vaccines will be stored until they’re approved for use. The news comes as cases rise in the Tampa Bay region, throughout Florida and much of the country. It also ...

This story will be updated. Another Mainer has died as health officials on Thursday reported 217 new coronavirus cases across the state. Thursday’s report brings the total number of coronavirus cases in Maine to 9,734. Of those, 8,732 have been confirmed positive, while 1,002 were classified as “probable cases,” according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency revised Wednesday’s cumulative total to 9,517, down from 9,519, meaning there was a net increase of 215 over the previous day’s report, state data show. As the Maine CDC continues to investigate previously reported cases, some are determined to have not been the coronavirus, or coronavirus cases not involving Mainers. Those are removed from the state’s cumulative total. The Bangor Daily...

A 51-year-old Croatian man is dead after falling from a 10-foot ladder — but medical experts at the Journal of Forensic Pathology reported that COVID-19 killed him. What are the details? According to a Thursday report from the New York Post, the man — a construction worker — fell from the ladder while working at a job site in Croatia. He was declared dead at the scene and was discovered with cuts and bruises to the head, but doctors performing an autopsy determined that COVID-19 caused the accident because "effects of the illness were disorienting." The report, titled "Accidental death from a fall from height at workplace turned out to be a COVID-19 death," noted his physical injuries. "External examination of the body made by the coroner revealed lacerations on both sides of his...

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