The district will allow asymptomatic children to stay in school. Those students will still have to wear a mask, though.

Pfizer and BioNTech say they plan to submit a formal request for emergency use authorization of their vaccine in young children "in the coming weeks."

Mayor Jerry Demings says the county is on firm legal ground regarding its COVID vaccine mandate because employees who don’t get the shot can receive only a written reprimand, not termination.

WMFE's Joe Byrnes spoke with Wendy Doromal, president of the Orange County Classroom Teachers Association, about the recent loosening of COVID-19 precautions.

The number of hospitalized COVID patients remains on a downward trend in Monday's report, with less than half of what it was at the beginning of September.

The ban on mask mandates was to take effect Wednesday. Before that could happen, an Arizona judge ruled that it and other laws were unconstitutional specifically because of how lawmakers passed them.

Among the people still reluctant to get vaccinated are firefighters, many of whom also respond to medical calls as paramedics and EMTs and have witnessed the ravages of the pandemic firsthand.

How much the vaccine manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout proves to be.

The positivity rate for COVID-19 within Sarasota County dropped below 8% for three consecutive days, and masks are now optional. The mask requirement will reactivate if the positivity rate goes above 10%.

State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith and the nonprofit Florida Center for Government Accountability filed the lawsuit after the state denied public record requests seeking daily COVID data.