epidemiologists

Cities, counties and the state of Florida will begin to lift restrictions on movement and business, but there’s an open debate over how fast that should happen. Dr. Shamarial Roberson, one of the state’s leading health officials, said the health department is ready for whatever the process looks like.  “It’s important that people implement mitigation strategies. But we are...

Virus investigators – known as epidemiologists – are playing a key role to opening the state back up through a process called contact tracing. NBC 6’s Phil Prazan reports.