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Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings says he’s hopeful that county medical director Dr. Raul Pino will soon return to work.
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A statement put out by Mayor Jerry Demings' office said he was fully vaccinated and boosted and had received the positive test Tuesday evening.
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The agency hopes people struggling with addiction will go to its website and sign up for free recovery resources or to receive Narcan.
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In the email to his staff, Dr. Raul Pino wrote: “I have a hard time understanding how we can be in public health and not practice it.” The state is working to determine whether any law was broken.
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The director of Orange County Utilities says COVID's omicron variant is circulating between 97 and 99 percent of samples.
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A week ago, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings said Gov. Ron DeSantis was missing in action as COVID case numbers shot up in the state.
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Orange County leaders plan to open a third testing site ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations. Meantime, Mayor Jerry Demings says Floridians should be outraged.
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AdventHealth in Orlando has reactivated its COVID command center. Meantime, omicron has been detected in Tallahassee and the variant has become the dominant strain in Miami-Dade.
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Dr. Raul Pino, medical director of the county's Department of Health, says the majority of COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the region continue to be from the delta variant.
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The test that found the omicron variant in Orange County sewage is considered preliminary. The city of Altamonte Springs also found the highly contagious strain in its sewage.