The gap was significant, with the CDC initially claiming there were 28,317 new cases on Sunday, while the Florida DOH puts that number at 15,319. On Tuesday the CDC adjusted its number down to 19,584.

For now, Florida has been granted a preliminary injunction that could render restrictions on cruising to and from the state imposed by the CDC as optional guidance starting next month.

Cruising restrictions will stay in place in Florida. A federal appeals court panel sided with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its legal battle with the state over COVID-19 ...

If cruise lines comply with the CDC and ask passengers to show proof they are vaccinated against COVID-19, they will be in violation of Gov. DeSantis' executive order and, after July 1, state law.

A s summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another ...

After the ruling late Friday, the CDC wrote to cruise lines asking them to notify the agency's Marine Unit by 5 p.m. Monday whether their ships operating out of Florida would "follow all of the ...

As of Monday, 43 of Florida's 67 counties reported moderate levels of weekly new hospital admissions for COVID-19 -- a higher proportion than any other state in the U.S., data from the CDC shows.

On the heels of the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, the Florida Department of Education has quietly dropped out of a 31-year-old CDC survey of students that includes … ...

Florida surgeon general defies CDC guidelines in measles outbreak 02:16. With a brief memo, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has subverted a public health standard that's long kept measles ...

According to CDC data, there were 285 cases of the measles in 2024. In 2019, the U.S. saw the largest outbreak of the measles since 1992, with 1,274 cases reported (there were 2,126 cases reported ...