coronavirus hospitalizations

The federal government is offering four COVID testing kits. Experts say it's a move that highlights expectations of another busy respiratory infection season.

The numbers have been steadily increasing along with cases. On Friday there were 1,303 hospital inpatients with Covid and that climbed to 1,352 on Monday.

NASA propellent management Eric Dirschka says the agency doesn't have an issue but is "sensitive to what’s going on in the marketplace and with the COVID in the hospitals. So it could become a problem.”

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.

Central Florida children’s hospitals continue to report increasing numbers of pediatric COVID-19 cases filling beds as hospitalizations surge across the state.

With demand for their services high around the country, Florida nurses are leaving for higher wages and safer conditions, just as the state has a growing number of hospitals reporting staff shortages.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings says he’d like to enforce a mask mandate but can't because an executive order by Gov. Ron DeSantis that outlaws local government restrictions.

Fewer than 1,800 people are being treated for the disease statewide, compared to the late July height of about 9,500.

More younger adults are entering Florida hospitals sick with COVID-19, as the mostly vaccinated senior population makes progress. Health experts say the shift stresses the need to get more shots in arms.