Florida and California responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in vastly different ways, but comparing outcomes isn't so simple. Here's what the numbers tell us.

California and Florida had similar cumulative COVID-19 death rates in the first few months of the pandemic. But Florida’s rate accelerated faster starting in summer 2020 as the state more ...

The system that protects Florida against smaller outbreaks is the same one now deployed against the coronavirus pandemic, said Dr. Richard Hopkins, who served as acting state epidemiologist in 2012.

Florida is an international crossroads, a magnet for tourists and retirees, and its population is older, sicker and more likely to be exposed to COVID-19 on the job than the country as a whole.

More people in Florida are catching the coronavirus, being hospitalized and dying of Covid-19 now than at any previous point in the pandemic, ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. ... Meanwhile, since March 2020, almost 100,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Florida.

Along with almost 100,000 dead in Florida from COVID-19, the virus' imprint on schools, ... On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.

COVID-19 pandemic tanked Visit Florida's return on investment, report says With tourists back at beaches, theme parks and other attractions, the analysis projects that Visit Florida’s economic ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a five-part series called “How Florida got so conservative.” Florida’s coronavirus pandemic policies have accelerated the state’s shift to ...

Florida’s tourism-marketing agency saw its return on investment fall to 58 cents for every $1 spent after COVID-19 slammed the doors on the tourism industry, but state economists are optimist… ...

Absenteeism across Florida skyrocketed beginning with that COVID-19 interlude — and, confounding experts’ predictions and defying educators’ hopes, it hasn’t come back down.