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Colin Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID complications. In an announcement on social media, his family said Powell had been fully vaccinated.

The state has seen its cases and hospitalizations decline, but an analysis from the New York Times finds Florida's deaths per 100,000 are third highest in the country over the past seven days.

The art installation was created by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, the social practice artist who first created an installation of white flags outside Washington's RFK Stadium in October 2020.

An AARP report shows that over four weeks that ended Aug. 22, the state's death rate for nursing home residents of 0.36 per 100 residents matched Alaska's.

Dr. Raul Pino of the county health department would not give any details about the death other than that the victim was younger than 1 year old.

Dr. Jason Byrd, a forensic medicine expert with the University of Florida, talks about how the state can to assist overwhelmed medical examiners offices, hospitals and funeral homes.

The county’s 14-day rolling positivity rate has dipped a bit, offering a sliver of hope as the death toll continues to rise. Also, the mayor is extending a deadline for county employees to be vaccinated.

The count of lives lost over the past year and a half is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world’s wars since 1982, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

More than 2.6 million new cases were reported between June 28 and July 4, a slight increase on the previous week, while the tally of deaths registered over the week declined 7% to 54,000.

More than 46,000 U.S. children have lost a parent to COVID. Families say finding even basic grief counseling has been difficult and there’s no coordinated effort to help these children access services or benefits.