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Florida's weekly coronavirus numbers.
As infections and hospitalizations hit record highs this week, vaccinations keep increasing.
The Sunshine State now has one out of every five infections, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S. as the delta variant runs rampant.
One reason for the increased enrollment is unemployment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 is resurgent and school is starting. Here’s what parents and kids need to know about the fourth coronavirus wave.

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  1. A sign at a counter in Cowbell, a New Orleans restaurant, on Friday informs customers that they can eat indoors if they have proof of vaccination against COVID-19.
  2. Lights are illuminated at an empty LIV nightclub Oct. 14, 2020, in Miami Beach. LIV is offering free COVID-19 vaccines outside the Miami club where high rollers spend up to $20,000 just for a table.
  3. A sign advises shoppers to wear masks outside of a store July 19, 2021, in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County has reinstated an indoor mask mandate due to rising COVID-19 cases.
  4. Medical workers administer rapid COVID-19 tests Feb. 17, 2021, in Immokalee.
  5. Members of the St. Anthony’s Hospital Susan Sheppard McGillicuddy Breast Center team - from left Latricia Poole, Courtnie Hagood, Lisa Jones and Dr. Claudia Bundschu, a neurologist who is the center’s medical director - welcomed the Hologic Brevera Breast Biopsy System, which was donated to the center by the St. Anthony’s Foundation Women in Philanthropy group.
  6. A saliva PCR test is pictured near the Wellness 4 Humanity COVID-19 screening Safe Entry Station Feb. 4 in Tampa. Pinellas County is opening a new site Monday and will administer COVID-19 antigen testing.
  7. Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 20.
  8. Honduran Eric Villanueva, 31, carries his son Eric, 7, onto the shore of the Rio Grande after crossing the US-Mexico border on a raft into the United States in Roma, Texas on July 9.
  9. Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley greets wide receiver Mike Williams during practice at the NFL football team's training camp July 28 in Costa Mesa, Calif. As workers return to the office, friends reunite and more church services shift from Zoom to in person, this exact question is befuddling growing numbers of people: To shake or not to shake?
  10. Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse Maggie Bass, left, administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a student at an open vaccination site sponsored by the university and the medical center in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021.
  11. Nurse Elizabeth Attar holds up a COVID-19 test collection kit at a testing site in Tampa in April 2020. Two new testing sites opened in Hillsborough County on Saturday.
  12. Mha’siyah Blake, 12, prepares to receive a COVID-19 vaccine administered by first-year University of South Florida physician’s assistant student Caroline Cubero at a back to school health clinic at Middleton High School in Tampa on July 31.
  13. Passengers wait in a long line Friday to get a COVID-19 test to travel overseas at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Recent flight cancelations caused many passengers to redo their tests while others were unable to get the test locally due to long lines caused by the surge of the Delta variant.
  14. In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, Dr. Yomaris Pena, Internal Medicine Physician with Somos Community Care at a COVID-19 extracts the last bit of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine out of a vial so as not to waste it at a vaccination site at the Corsi Houses in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York. An untold number of Americans have managed to get COVID-19 booster shots even though the U.S. government hasn't approved them. They're doing so by taking advantage of the nation’s vaccine surplus and loose tracking of those who have been fully vaccinated.
  15. Florida's weekly coronavirus numbers.
  16. Patrons of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, some masked, others not, prepare to ride a shuttle from a parking lot to the park’s entrance on Monday. Florida recorded 126,841 new COVID-19 cases between July 29 and Aug 4, new federal data shows. That's more than 19,000 cases a day over that seven-day period, the highest since the pandemic started 17 months ago.
  17. Fourth graders Austin Corcoran, 9, left, and Tyler Williams, 10, work together on a math lesson on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, at Innovations Preparatory Academy in Wesley Chapel.
  18. Clearwater officials say the spike in COVID-19 cases has flooded Pinellas County hospitals, which means city fire crews have had to take on some of the transports normally handled by Sunstar Paramedics ambulances.
  19. William Schleman, 80, stands in front of his side of the duplex in Charlotte County, which is just south of Sarasota, where he has lived for about nine years. He is facing a potential eviction because of delays in the state's disbursement of rental assistance money that he was approved to receive weeks ago.
  20. People check out Impulse on the dance floor at Skipper's Smokehouse in 2012. The venue, which opened in 1980 and closed in 2020, has officially reopened in Tampa.
  21. St. Petersburg City Council member Lisa Wheeler-Bowman proposed reinstalling plexiglass dividers among council members in the council chambers. The council ultimately voted 5-3 to reinstall the dividers
  22. Gov. Ron DeSantis takes questions during a press conference at Tampa General Hospital and USF Health Morsani College of Medicine's Global Emerging Diseases Institute on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021.
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