News Service of Florida

The Agency for Health Care Administration oversees a Medicaid program that had grown to more than 5.53 million beneficiaries, as well as hospitals, nursing homes and most other health care facilities in Florida.

The state's two-week COVID report also showed the total number of residents who have died from COVID-19 is 82,875.

Federal laws bar certain people from buying and possessing guns, including people who use drugs illegally.. While medical marijuana is legal in Florida, its use remains against U.S. law.

In a tweet, Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote that Dr. Joseph Ladapo's "evidence-based principles serve as a counterweight to the increasingly political positions of the entrenched medical establishment."

The Department of Health report showed that the state had 12,336 reported new cases of COVID from Oct. 28 through Thursday and 10,798 reported cases the previous week.

The employees at Jacksonville's Ascension St. Vincent’s, who are not defendants in the case, argued in part that their privacy rights would be violated. An appellate panel rejected the request.

Attorneys filed an initial brief after the 2nd District Court of Appeal refused to dismiss a potential class-action lawsuit alleging USF breached a contract with a student and improperly kept fees.

The state Department of Health report showed that numbers of new COVID cases have remained relatively low during October.

In backing a Leon County judge, the appeals court panel said the department had not demonstrated that the decision “would result in irreparable harm.”

Four plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in September, arguing that the rule is unconstitutional and violates federal laws prohibiting discrimination based on sex.