We bring you a lot of stories. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. So in case you missed anything from our feed, we have rounded up all our stories in one place to get the news at a glance. Here is your Weekly Recap for January 3 – January 9, 2022. Universal Orlando Resort Universal … Read more
Workers United Local 50, one of the unions representing Disneyland Cast Members, has reported that “response time” on COVID-19 related medical pay is currently delayed. Full-time and select part-time Cast Members qualify for up to two weeks of pay for missed shifts if they have a confirmed case of COVID-19. The union advises that “To … Read more
Florida set a new single-day record of COVID-19 cases on December 30, 2021, with 75,902 cases, according to data from the CDC. This was the third-highest single-day number from any state during the pandemic. In the days since December 30, case numbers have been between 39,000 and 57,000. The 7-day moving average continues to rise. … Read more
We bring you a lot of stories every single day. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. So in case you missed anything from our feed, we have rounded up all our stories in one place to get the news at a glance. Here is your Daily Recap for Friday, December 31, 2021. Walt Disney World … Read more
Florida has once again shattered its COVID-19 case records with 75,962 new cases reported today, December 31, 2021. Yesterday’s record was amended to 58,013 as the initial number of 77,848 included backlogged data. NBC Miami reported the latest data per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The record was also broken for the … Read more
Florida reported record 77,848 new COVID-19 cases today, according to NBC 6 South Florida. NBC 6 South Florida reports that Florida reported 58,013 new cases of COVID-19 infections today. However, the actual total of new cases today tallied up to 77,848. That number includes the CDC’s backlog of cases and deaths from past days that … Read more
Guests aboard the Disney Fantasy were unable to debark the ship at St. Thomas this morning due to a rise in COVID-19 cases on board the ship, Disney Cruise Line Blog reports. The Disney Cruise Line ship is currently on a 7-night Eastern Caribbean cruise set to return to Port Canaveral on Sunday, January 2. … Read more
Florida has broken the record set less than a week ago for daily COVID-19 cases at 46,923. Florida tops the chart of cases reported in the last 7 days with 206,358 total. The 7-day average is 29,479. It was 21,640 in the midst of the Delta surge in mid-August. The University of Florida predicts Omicron … Read more
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to surge across the country. Florida recently broke its record for most cases in a day since the start of the pandemic. Yesterday, December 27, Orange County, Florida had a positivity rate of 45%. Rusty McCranie of WFTV shared the news from Dr. Tim Hendrix of AdventHealth on Twitter. … Read more
COVID-19 is on the rise in the state of Florida, with an 415% increase in cases in the last week, according to BNO Newsroom on Twitter. The news account also reports that Florida has reported 32,869 new cases in that same span of time. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention placed Orange … Read more
Just weeks after being moved to a “substantial” COVID-19 tier, Florida’s Orange County has once again moved to the “high” tier of case transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As crowds descend on both Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort for the holiday season, COVID-19 transmission has been on the … Read more
The latest variant of COVID-19, called omicron, has now been detected in Florida. Cases were already found in some other states. The first Tampa Bay case was detected at James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital, Spectrum News 13 reports. The patient recently traveled abroad. They are only experiencing mild symptoms. Another case was detected in St. … Read more
On Wednesday, Florida reported 2,505 new cases of COVID-19, making the 7-day average below 3,000 cases for the first time since July 7. The 7-day average for daily deaths on Wednesday was 240, with the state’s total death count increasing by three. As of yesterday, 3,153 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state, which … Read more
We bring you a lot of stories every single day. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. So in case you missed anything from our feed, we have rounded up all our stories in one place to get the news at a glance. Here is your Daily Recap for Wednesday, August 25, 2021. Walt Disney World … Read more
According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Hospital Association, Florida reported 26,203 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, August 24. This breaks the previous record of 25,957 from August 12. The graph below is also provided by the Florida Hospital Association, reporting 2,021 new hospitalizations from the virus … Read more
Mayor Jerry Demings reported on Orange County, Florida’s current COVID-19 cases in a press conference today, saying, “we are in crisis mode.” Orange County is seeing almost 1,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, which is about the highest peak the county saw in 2020. Demings is urging residents to get vaccinated. Approximately 61% of Orange … Read more