USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

A former state representative from central Florida has been arrested on federal fraud charges, reported the Orlando Sentinel. Carolina Amesty "faces two counts of theft of government property related to COVID relief fraud,

When Miramar-based Trinity Health Care Services accepted the overpayments, its CEO was U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who has been the subject of an unrelated House ethics complaint.

The grand jury did not pursue criminal charges, in part, because it did not uncover activities involving vaccine makers and distributors that were not approved by federal regulators, the report said. Also, the grand jury did not find “statements that were both objectively false and sufficiently precise to support a criminal prosecution.”

Former state Rep. Carolina Amesty is accused of fraudulent activity involving COVID-19 relief funds, according to federal complaint filed on Thursday

U.S. prosecutors are charging former state Rep. Carolina Amesty with stealing from the federal government’s COVID-19 relief funds, the latest humiliating turn in the career of a woman once viewed as a rising star in the Florida GOP.

Just ask the state of Florida. According to a lawsuit filed recently ... "Trinity took advantage of the state of emergency the entire country was encountering due to the COVID-19 pandemic and knowingly processed an invoice more than 100 times its typical ...

This morning, the Twenty-Second Statewide Grand Jury released its final report. This Grand Jury was tasked with investigating vaccine manufacturers and their production process for vaccines following the COVID-19 pandemic. While we are still reading through the report and its…

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick was the CEO of South Florida's Trinity Health Care Services when it accepted more than $5 million in improper loans during the pandemic.

(AP) — A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” concerning COVID-19 vaccines did not find ... through hard-line opposition to pandemic lockdowns and mask mandates.

More:A look back: Key moments from the first months of COVID-19 The report also called for Florida to enact “more widespread monitoring of wastewater for pathogens.” “During the pandemic ...

Carolina Amesty, 30, Republican obtained $122,000 by fraudulently applying for pandemic relief funds in the name of two businesses.