Abe Aboraya
Health News Florida ReporterHealth News Florida reporter Abe Aboraya works for WMFE in Orlando. He started writing for newspapers in high school. After graduating from the University of Central Florida in 2007, he spent a year traveling and working as a freelance reporter for the Seattle Times and the Seattle Weekly, and working for local news websites in the San Francisco Bay area. Most recently Abe worked as a reporter for the Orlando Business Journal. He comes from a family of health care workers.
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Orlando is the top tourist destination in the U.S., attracting 35 million visitors in 2020. That’s during a pandemic. This story is about an unofficial diagnosis some visitors will get while on vacation. -
AdventHealth in Orlando has reactivated its COVID command center. Meantime, omicron has been detected in Tallahassee and the variant has become the dominant strain in Miami-Dade. -
Project Opioid founder Andrae Bailey says the pandemic accelerated the real problem: the synthetic opioid fentanyl flooding the markets. -
The Florida Hospital Association is sounding the alarm, saying a survey shows 68 hospitals have less than a 48-hour supply of oxygen -
With the surge in cases, one treatment for extremely sick patients is getting really hard to find. It's called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and it's a bypass machine for the heart and lungs. -
Commissioner Richard Corcoran's memo to superintendents lists reasons he wants districts to address mask policies for the 2021-22 school year. -
In this interview, Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, explains provisions that make it easier for Floridians who lost their job to keep health insurance during the pandemic. -
Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted calls to expand Florida’s Medicaid eligibility, saying it would be too costly in future years. -
It took 13 minutes to fill the available spots for the county-run drive-thru location at the Orange County Convention Center, the first site in Florida to open eligibility to residents 40 and over. -
The CDC found that the 96 percent of Floridians who did return for a second dose matches nearly identically with the U.S. average.
