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Miami-Dade officials may lift the county’s curfew on April 5th depending on how coronavirus trends continue, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a press release Friday

Coronavirus, budget questions, anti-riot legislation and an attempt to reign in large technology companies will be among issues lawmakers will take up in their 60-day session that begins Tuesday

Publix will begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine at 136 pharmacies in Miami-Dade and Broward counties beginning March 1.

The vaccine doses will start to be given out Monday at locations in Miami-Dade and Broward for the first time.

NBC 6’s Julie Leonardi has more on how the supermarket giant will start the program in South Florida’s two biggest counties with shots being distributed starting Monday.

Publix will begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine at 136 pharmacies in Miami-Dade and Broward counties beginning March 1. NBC 6’s Marissa Bagg reports

As he travels the state distributing coronavirus vaccine and repeating his mantra — Seniors first — Gov. Ron DeSantis has received praise from grateful seniors, but also criticism from others who say he is using the vaccine to reward conservative, affluent retirement communities.

While more than 2 million Floridians over age 65 have received at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine, Miami-Dade’s vaccination falls below the state average. As Gov. Ron DeSantis came to Hialeah to give the county a boost, NBC 6 Investigator Tony pipeline looked at claims that he’s showing vaccine favoritism to Republican strongholds.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Florida ranked 34th among states in per capita pediatric COVID-19 cases, he was making an invalid comparison between states, the NBC 6 Investigators found and an epidemiologist Thursday confirmed..

NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone spoke to a epidemiologist who confirmed where Gov. Ron DeSantis’ numbers on Florida’s children COVID rates were way off.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis promotes Florida’s fight against coronavirus, he often points to a relatively low infection rate among children — even after school districts offered in-person learning. NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone found the governor is missing one key piece of information when he compares Florida to other states — he’s not counting all of Florida’s children.

In a speech and a tweet this week lauding his decision to keep schools open, Florida’s governor omitted more than 50,000 coronavirus cases confirmed in children over 14, comparing the state’s infection rate among children under 15 to other states’ rates for those under 20.

Florida will be getting an additional 41,000 doses of the COVID vaccine – weather permitting – by next week, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday. DeSantis held a news conference at a Pinellas Park senior community center, continuing his push to vaccinate seniors in the state ahead of other groups. DeSantis was at the opening of the latest vaccination site in…

Winter storms in the U.S. have delayed vaccine deliveries to Florida. NBC 6’s Carlos Suarez reports

The Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center partnered with two churches and a mosque to bring senior citizens from their congregations together to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

Florida on Thursday launched the state’s pilot program to give access to COVID-19 vaccines to seniors who are homebound with an emphasis on Holocaust survivors. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports

Miami-Dade County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to urge Gov. Ron DeSantis to include hotel, restaurant and home health care workers in the next round of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Concerns expressed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last month that Florida could be forced to withhold first doses of vaccine to allow booster shots to be given have so far proven unfounded.

Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed the federal government this week is giving Florida more doses than it’s had in over a month. NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone reports