coronavirus vaccines

NBC 6 Responds’ Sasha Jones talks through the consequences of getting caught using one.

Delta Airlines announced Wednesday that it would be charging unvaccinated employees a monthly $200 surcharge starting November 1. Company representatives say this is necessary to offset the high health care costs for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Relatives of Black men who were unknowingly part of the infamous Tuskegee experiment are promoting COVID-19 vaccines in a new ad campaign.

Three senators visiting Taiwan say the U.S. will give the self-ruled island 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden’s move to share tens of millions of jabs globally

Nova Southeastern University is no longer mandating that staff and students be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 for the fall semester. In a statement Wednesday, the university said its requirement for vaccinations will no longer be in effect due to a Florida law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and set to go into effect on July 1 that bans businesses from…

NBC 6’s Carolina Peguero explains what that means to residents across the state and how some elected officials are responding to the move.

Here’s what we know about each of the coronavirus vaccines, and where they’re being distributed.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announces that county-run COVID-19 vaccine sites will drop eligibility to 40 and older on March 29.

CONFERENCE FOOTAGE: Gov. Ron DeSantis said that the vaccine eligibility age could be lowered to 55 in Florida “some time in March.”

Getting the coveted coronavirus vaccine has been tremendously difficult for many older adults due to complicated and overtaxed websites and bureaucracies

Kim Wynne has the latest on vaccination efforts in U.S. and South Florida.

Florida will be lowering the eligible age for COVID-19 vaccines below 65 “relatively soon,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday. Speaking at a news conference at a vaccination site in Crystal River Thursday morning, DeSantis said about 54% of the state’s seniors age 65 and older have received a shot, meaning the state is getting closer to lowering the eligible age….

Six new COVID-19 vaccination sites including two in Miami-Dade and one in Broward will be opening to bring doses to some of Florida’s underserved communities, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday. Each of the six sites will be open seven days a week starting Thursday and will offer about 200 shots per day, DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville….

Miami Beach officials are imposing safety measures amid spring break season. NBC 6’s Stephanie Bertini reports

Dr. Yepes said that enlarged lymph nodes is a regular side-effect of the coronavirus vaccine, and Miriam Gutt is only one of a handful of patients she’s seen in the last two months with a likely false positive mammogram as a result.

Marissa Bagg has the latest on why some experts are sounding the alarm about false positives on mammograms after someone has received a coronavirus vaccine dose.

RAW FOOTAGE: Plant City Police release footage of a person of interest in the theft of a car containing vials of COVID-19 vaccine.

Police are searching for a car containing  $10,000 worth of COVID-19 vaccine that was stolen in Florida. Authorities in Plant City near Tampa said the 2018 gray Hyundai Accent was stolen Wednesday from a parking lot at the Strawberry Festival Grounds. The car contained 30 vials of the vaccine that were to be distributed at a vaccination site at the…