
Abe Aboraya
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Centra Care’s COVID-19 positivity rate: A staggering 39%
AdventHealth’s urgent care centers are have nearly doubled the rate of positive COVID-19 tests in the last two weeks – setting a new record.

Failing the Disney stress test: How to be heart healthy on vacation
It was March 2017, and Larry Fine was on a Disney vacation in Orlando when his heart attacked him.

DeSantis: Florida will get four new monoclonal antibody sites, hints at testing restrictions
Central Florida will get another monoclonal antibody treatment site, the state announced Monday, as an increase in federal supply is expected.

‘It just hits you right in the heart’: Why one Floridian has donated 100 gallons of blood
“Getting stuck with the needle is nothing compared to what the people who need the blood are going through,” says Gerry Hazuka. He’s donated more than 100 gallons of blood since the late 1980s.

Centra Care’s COVID-19 positivity rate balloons to 21%, AdventHealth braces for surge
AdventHealth has reactivated its COVID-19 command center as the rate of positive test results spiked at its Centra Care urgent care centers.

Fatal opioid overdoses spike in Central Florida, even after pandemic restrictions lifted
Every day, one person dies in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties from a fatal opioid overdose.

National analysis finds Florida has wide health care gaps along racial, ethnic lines
Black and Native Americans in Florida have some of the worst health care outcomes in the U.S., ranking in the bottom fourth in a new analysis of health data from the Commonwealth Fund.