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The Florida Department of Health reported 3,590 new COVID-19 cases and 71 newly verified deaths Friday.
As of Friday, 7,415,135 Florida residents have been fully vaccinated with the coronavirus vaccine.
Not only can vaccinated people mostly avoid masks, they can limit testing for COVID-19.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week said vaccinated people without symptoms mostly don’t need to get tested even if exposed to the virus. People who are fully vaccinated and don’t have symptoms also should not be randomly screened, the CDC said.
The CDC’s loosening of masking restrictions and updated testing guidance comes as large private employers and universities still routinely test vaccinated employees and students. | Read more
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Vaccinations in Florida
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Weekly COVID analysis: Florida ranks 26th in people getting first vaccine shot
COVID-19 vaccinations: Publix, CVS, Walgreens, Sam's Club, Winn-Dixie, Walmart offer walk-ins
COVID-19 in Florida by the numbers
Here's a breakdown of the latest numbers in Florida according to an automated graphic that uses data provided by Johns Hopkins University.
Overview of COVID-19 in Florida (numbers update periodically, check back for the latest):
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Universal Orlando, Disney World drop mask requirement outdoors, but visitors still must wear them on rides, indoors
Universal Orlando and Disney World both announced Friday that guests will no longer be required to wear masks while outdoors starting Saturday.
"Based on guidance from local government and health officials, effective Saturday, May 15, face coverings for guests are no longer mandatory when outdoors at Universal Orlando," Tom Schroder, a spokesperson for Universal told USA TODAY.
The Florida theme park's announcement came one day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new mask guidance for fully vaccinated people. Disney officials said Thursday, hours after the health agency's new guidance was released, that they would be considering changes to its mask requirement. | Read more
'What if it was your kid?': Parents of young children feel forgotten as CDC loosens mask restrictions
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fully vaccinated people can ditch masks in most indoor settings. Several states have begun to lift mask mandates. And some schools are loosening mask requirements.
But as many Americans celebrate the new guidance as a step toward a return to normalcy, some parents of young children who cannot yet be vaccinated say they feel left behind.
“For me, it wasn’t a time to celebrate,” said Janie Able, a mother of two 7-year-old girls in Omaha, Nebraska. “My husband and I are vaccinated, but what about my children?” | Read more
Publix, Trader Joe's, Walmart will no longer require masks in stores for vaccinated shoppers
Cancel the mask-burning party.
Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said fully vaccinated people don’t have to wear face coverings in most situations, most area retailers say they will continue to require customers to be masked.
Winn-Dixie, CVS and Target are among the national chains that say they are keeping their policies in place — at least for now. | Read more
Masks still required for now at Target, Walgreens, CVS and more, but retailers review new CDC mask guidance
Don't ditch your mask just yet.
Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new masking guidelines saying fully vaccinated people don't need to wear masks, face coverings will still be required when shopping at the nation's major retailers and entering national chain restaurants like Starbucks.
At least for now. | Read more
After new CDC guidance, Florida Theatre drops mask policy, temperature checks
The Florida Theatre in downtown Jacksonville is rolling back its face mask policy as COVID cases drop and vaccinations increase.
As of Saturday, patrons will no longer have their temperatures checked before entering the theater. Face coverings will be "strongly recommended" but not required and the venue's bars will return to normal operations. Intermissions, which had been suspended under the policy put in place when the theater started welcoming crowds back late last year, will return. Employees will no longer be required to wear face coverings at the theater.
Numa Saisselin, president of the Florida Theatre, said the changes were made because the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed the guidelines. | Read more
New mask guidelines: Great for some, confusing for others. What experts say this does to the CDC's credibility.
Loosening mask restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated is either a great way to reward those who get their shots or a communications disaster that threatens to undermine America's progress against the pandemic.
That was the consensus – or lack of one – after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated no longer need to wear masks, even indoors, except in crowded indoor settings like airplanes, buses and health care facilities.
Some communications experts reacted with dismay to the decision, saying that while the agency may have been describing a limited loosening of restrictions for the vaccinated, what the public heard actually heard was "all limits are off." | Read more
At least 8 states lift mask mandates; teachers unions call for reopening all schools this fall
At least eight states began to lift mask mandates following the CDC's updated guidance that fully vaccinated Americans could discard masks outdoors and in many situations indoors.
The new guidelines announced by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, represent a major step toward a return to normalcy for a nation battered and at times divided by a pandemic that has lasted more than a year.
"Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing,'' Walensky said. "If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic.'' | Read more
Did the coronavirus come directly from animals or was it released from a lab? Top American scientists join call for answers.
Fifteen months after the global pandemic officially began, it's still unclear how it originated – and a group of top American scientists is eager for answers.
In a letter in the current issue of the journal Science, 18 infectious disease experts, immunologists and epidemiologists joined a global call for more information about the earliest days of the outbreak. There still isn't enough known, they said, to determine whether the coronavirus jumped directly from animals to people or whether it was released from a research laboratory in China.
The lack of information, they said, feeds conspiracy theories and prevents scientists and policymakers from taking steps to prevent the next deadly pandemic. | Read more
CDC panel recommends Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids as young as 12
Adolescents ages 12 to 15 should get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and they can get their other routine vaccinations along with it, a federal advisory committee said Wednesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's panel met to discuss the safety, immune response and effectiveness of the vaccine in this age group, after the Food and Drug Administration signed off Monday on the shots.
The same Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices last December signed off on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for adults and teens ages 16 to 17. | Read more
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