Department of Health

As public health departments work on improving their message, the skepticism and mistrust often reserved for COVID-vaccines now threaten other priorities, including flu shots and childhood vaccines.

The vote to continue only medical exemptions for younger students follows calls for Superintendent Carlee Simon to resign after her clash with Gov. Ron DeSantis. A panel of UF medical experts spoke Tuesday on her behalf.

The Miami-Dade County School Board, the NAACP and other parties say the department did not have a legal basis for a rule aimed at preventing district mask mandates.

Scott Rivkees announced he will leave his post as surgeon general and secretary of the Florida Department of Health next month. But the move comes amid a surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has recommended both districts be punished, which could include withholding funds or even removal of leaders from office.

Florida health care officials have wasted more than 3,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, a spokesman for the Department of Health said Wednesday.

The counties were taking reservations by phone after websites crashed Tuesday but filled time slots after a short time.

According to Monday’s report from the Florida Department of Health, another 1,885 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in the state in the…

The Florida Department of Health on Saturday reported another 6,352 people tested positive for the coronavirus on Saturday and 204 new deaths.

Vilified, threatened with violence or in some cases suffering from burnout, dozens of state and local public health officials around the U.S. have…