COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations statewide have sunk to levels not seen since before the summer surge caused by the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, the federal government reported Friday.
Hospitals statewide tended to 1,240 COVID-positive patients Friday, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department reported. That's the least amount since May 10.
The Florida Department of Health used to regularly supply news outlets with information showing how many special coronavirus tests detected viral mutations but stopped this spring.. Florida and the CDC do not provide data showing how many residents have gotten the latest Pfizer or Moderna shots, also called the bivalent boosters, which were federally approved in late August.Rep. Carlos Smith's gets a victory in suit against Department of Health
But state health officials refused to provide the data it had been publishing daily for more than a year, claiming it is exempt from doing so because of state privacy laws.
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