Jacksonville

At least 270 people have died from overdoses so far this year in Jacksonville; 271 people had died from an overdose at the same point last year .

The money from the Partnership for Mental Health will go to increase access to mental health services and provide behavioral health care.

The medical director of the pediatric ICU at the Jacksonville hospital said that along with the COVID surge in kids there’s been a rise in the number of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

The governor appeared with Toma Dean, the woman seen on the floor of a state-run Regenron clinic in a viral photo. Dean said that she believes the treatment helped keep her alive after she caught COVID.

A group of parents take issue with a policy at the school that allows only students who are fully vaccinated to go without a face covering.

"It’s horrible that we’ve retreated into our partisan tribes relating to things like masks and vaccines and whether or not COVID is even real, and whether or not we are lying about the hospitals being full."

Duval County Public Schools has joined the growing list of Florida school districts defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order on school mask mandates.

Toma Dean said she was too out of breath to keep standing while waiting for injections of monoclonal antibodies. She says she would be in the ER had she not received the treatment.

The photographer said nurses were friendly and were doing their best, and the patients were all friendly despite the two-hour waits. Some patients shared the limited chairs that were available.

Jacksonville's Baptist Health has a refrigerated truck standing by in case COVID-related deaths increase, according to a report.