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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a person was injected with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine works for children between 5 and 11
FDA chief Dr. Peter Marks says his agency will evaluate the data “hopefully in a matter of weeks.”
Coronavirus in Tampa Bay schools: a weekly update
A masked student searches for his first-period class at Sunlake High on Aug. 10, the first day of school in Pasco County. Sunlake led the district this past week with 39 reported cases of COVID-19, but school case numbers across the county are headed down.
Case counts are dropping after a peak in late August.
DeSantis pledges to ‘fight like hell’ over COVID-19 treatment
Gov. Ron DeSantis
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday that the federal government’s distribution plan for monoclonal antibodies is aimed at achieving “equity” among states receiving them.
Mease Countryside Hospital adds 100 new beds in $156 million expansion
Work is close to completion at the new four-story Bilheimer Tower at the Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor. The $156-million expansion and renovation project creates a more connected hospital campus adding roughly 100 private patient beds, a four-story parking garage and an an elevated pedestrian walkway.
Patient privacy a priority with the addition of a new four-story patient tower at the BayCare hospital in Safety Harbor.

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  1. Tampa General CEO slams Biden administration over coronavirus treatments
    2 hours ago• Politics
    Tampa General President and CEO John Couris speaks while Gov. Ron DeSantis listens during an August news conference at Tampa General Hospital and USF Health Morsani College of Medicine's Global Emerging Diseases Institute.
  2. CVS to hire 25,000 workers to boost flu shots and COVID-19 vaccines and testing
    Yesterday• Business
    Meta Konte, a 17-year-old North Providence High School student, watches closely as pharmacy technician Victoria Connolly administers Konte's first COVID-19 vaccine shot at the CVS on Manton Avenue in Providence on May 13. CVS Health Corp. announced Monday it’s hiring 25,000 clinical and retail workers to respond to demand for COVID-19 vaccinations and testing and an expected spike in the flu this fall and winter.
  3. COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu
    Yesterday• Health
    COVID-related U.S. deaths as of Sunday night are at 673,763, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
  5. Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine works for children between 5 and 11
    Yesterday• Health
    FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2020, file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a person was injected with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
  6. Biden easing foreign travel restrictions, requiring vaccines
    Yesterday• Health
    President Joe Biden leaves St. Edmund Roman Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Del., after attending a Mass on Saturday.
  7. What are the odds of a breakthrough infection?
    Yesterday• Health
    Diners relax under the lights at Wine Garden, a restaurant and bar in Fort Lauderdale's North Beach Village.
  8. Democrats push to retool health care programs for millions
    Yesterday• Health
    A dentist smooths out the edges of new 3D printed dentures in 2019 in Huntsville, Texas. Dental work for Medicare recipients, an end to sky’s-the-limit pricing on prescription drugs and coverage for low-income people locked out of Medicaid because of political battles are just some of the changes to health care that Democrats want to achieve with President Joe Biden’s massive “Build Back Better” plan.
  9. CDC: Moderna vaccine tops Pfizer long-term against hospitalization
    Sep. 18• Health
    A health worker administers a dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. on Sept. 14.
  10. Top doctors say not so fast to Biden’s boosters-for-all plan
    Sep. 18• Health
    A health worker administers a dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic Tuesday at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa. A key government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected Biden's plan to give COVID-19 booster shots across the board and instead recommended the extra vaccine dose only for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease.
  11. Florida adds 75,906 coronavirus cases, 2,468 deaths in past week
    Sep. 18• Health
    Florida's weekly coronavirus numbers.
  12. To boost or not to boost? Breaking down the COVID booster debate.
    Sep. 18• Health
    Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
  13. U.S. panel backs Pfizer COVID boosters only for elderly, high-risk
    Sep. 18• Health
    Rufus Peoples receives his booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine during an Oakland County Health Department vaccination clinic at the Southfield Pavilion on Aug. 24 in Southfield, Michigan.
  14. Florida passes 51,000 COVID deaths as vaccination rate drops
    Sep. 17• Health
    Wenderson Cerisene, 7, right, and his sister Dorah, 9, wait to get tested for COVID-19 on Aug. 31, 2021 in North Miami as Florida schools saw a rise in cases forcing of students and teachers to quarantine. Florida has now surpassed 51,000 COVID-related deaths.
  15. Mease Countryside Hospital adds 100 new beds in $156 million expansion
    Sep. 17• Health
    Work is close to completion at the new four-story Bilheimer Tower at the Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor. The $156-million expansion and renovation project creates a more connected hospital campus adding roughly 100 private patient beds, a four-story parking garage and an an elevated pedestrian walkway.
  16. St. Petersburg to require COVID vaccinations for new city employees
    Sep. 17• St. Petersburg
    Mayor Rick Kriseman.
  17. FDA panel is first key test for Biden COVID-19 booster plan
    Sep. 17• Health
    In this March 2, 2021 photo, pharmacy technician Hollie Maloney loads a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine. The Biden administration’s embattled plan to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to most Americans faced its first key hurdle Friday as a government advisory panel met to decide whether to recommend extra doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
  18. Military COVID-19 deaths continue to spike but no fatalities among fully vaccinated
    Sep. 17• Health
    The Department of Defense can only compel troops to get the Pfizer vaccine because it's the only one so far to meet with approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
  19. Have tickets to a show in Tampa Bay? Better check COVID requirements.
    Sep. 17• Entertainment
    Concert-goers had to adhere to new vaccination rules for a Maroon 5 concert in Ohio in August. When the band performs in Tampa Sept. 24, fans must bring a printed copy of a negative test result or proof of their COVID-19 vaccination.
  20. Pinellas considers $750 incentive for employees in vaccine push
    Sep. 16• Pinellas
    Pinellas County Administrator Barry Burton speaks to Pinellas County commissioners.
  21. Biden: Nearly 3M get health coverage during COVID-19 sign-up
    Sep. 16• Health
    The HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that 2.8 million consumers took advantage of a special six-month period to sign up for private health insurance coverage made more affordable by his COVID-19 relief law.
  22. Research counters Nicki Minaj’s tweet about COVID-19 vaccines and impotency
    Sep. 16• Health
    This Aug. 20, 2018 photo shows Nicki Minaj at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
  23. Tampa police officer dies of COVID-19 complications
    Sep. 16• Health
    Tampa police Officer Matthew S. Coleman, 37, has died following complications from the coronavirus, according to the Tampa Police Department.
  24. As COVID-19 vaccine mandates rise, religious exemptions grow
    Sep. 15• Health
    In this Jan. 13, 2020 photo, a woman holds a sign during a protest at the state house in Trenton, N.J. Religious objections, once used only sparingly around the country to get exempted from various required vaccines, are becoming a much more widely used loophole against the COVID-19 shot.
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