Kerry Sheridan
Health News Florida ReporterKerry Sheridan is a reporter and co-host of All Things Considered at WUSF Public Media.
Prior to joining WUSF, she covered international news, health, science, space and environmental issues for Agence France-Presse from 2005 to 2019, reporting from the Middle East bureau in Cyprus, followed by stints in Washington and Miami.
Kerry earned her master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002, and was a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Cultural Reporting.
She got her start in radio news as a freelancer with WFUV in the Bronx in 2002. Since then, her stories have spanned a range of topics, including politics, baseball, rocket launches, art exhibits, coral reef restoration, life-saving medical research, and more.
She is a native of upstate New York, and currently lives with her husband and two children in Sarasota.
You can reach Kerry via email at sheridank@wusf.org, on Twitter @kerrsheridan or by phone at 813-974-8663.
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The spike in deaths continues even as new COVID-19 cases continue to fall, marking the lowest weekly total since late July.
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The Hillsborough County School Board will discuss ways to curb the spread of the virus in schools.
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School officials worry that cases are beginning to spread inside schools, and that quarantine numbers will soon "explode."
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The policy lasts through Aug. 25, and will be considered again at a school board meeting next week.
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In Sarasota County, actual case counts are almost four times higher than the district's COVID dashboard shows, according to school board Chair Shirley Brown.
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Pinellas will continue to strongly recommend masks, but parents do not have to fill out forms if they choose to not wear one.
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Florida's governor has threatened to withhold funding from school districts that adopt a mask requirement. With COVID-19 spreading unchecked, some districts are considering requiring masks anyway.
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Dr. Juan Dumois, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, cites the importance of masks and unpredictability of complications like MIS-C.
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Among them: People with flu-like symptoms should stay home, simultaneous online instruction will no longer be offered, and quarantine policies are eased for those vaccinated.
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Ron Meyer, a longtime Tallahassee education lawyer, says Gov. Ron DeSantis' executive order banning local school mask mandates defies the Florida Constitution.