Month: September 2021

Orange County residents wait in line for COVID-19 testing at the Orange County Health Services services drive-thru site at the former Clarcona Elementary School campus on Damon Road in Apopka, Friday, August 20, 2021. The site is one of three hosted by OCHS, is open 7 days a week 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and provides both PCR/molecular and rapid/antigen tests. No appointments are required; the site is drive-thru only with no walk-ups permitted. Coronavirus infections in Florida continue to remain high, with a 12.6% increase reported statewide. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

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A Tampa area man says his dad died from COVID-19, despite him being fully vaccinated.Mike Madry tells 8 On Your Side his father Daniel Madry had pre-existing conditions, and there’s a lot their family didn’t realize until it was too late. Now he’s sharing his father’s story hoping to save someone else’s life.At 61-years-old, Madry was in good shape, so what happened to him completely blindsided his family. He dies days after getting COVID-19 and checking into St. Joseph’s Hospital in Riverview.“Once he got the vaccine it was a huge weight off his shoulder,” Madry said. “One of his last Facebook posts was telling people to wear a mask and stay vigilant because this disease was destroying him.”Doctors diagnosed Madry with a form of leukemia last year. His son Mike says his dad wasn’t r...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A Georgia woman is urging pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine amid the spread of the delta variant after suffering the ultimate loss. Kyndal Nipper, of Columbus, was 36 weeks pregnant (40 is considered full-term) when she and her husband tested positive for COVID-19. She said their symptoms were so mild they would not have gotten tested if it weren’t for the loss of smell. Warrant issued for dispatcher accused of disconnecting emergency calls without getting help After several days of low-grade fevers and allergy-like symptoms, Nipper and her husband felt better, but that’s when she noticed something was wrong. She said her baby was moving less than usual. She contacted doctors and followed their orders to monitor it for an hour ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - With the start of college football season in South Carolina happening at the same time as a third-day holiday weekend in the midst of a surge in COVID-19 cases, health experts are concerned things can get worse. “We will have a further uptick with the universities opening up. We will have a further uptick with the schools not having masks on and creating an enormous number of cases. And then, we will have Labor Day travel on top of this. So yes, there will be a further uptick,” said Dr. Helmut Albrecht the Chair of the Department of Medicine for Prisma Health Medical Group. Medical experts are already concerned about the rate of new cases in South Carolina. The Palmetto State is leading the country in new daily COVID-19 infections when population size is taken into ...

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