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What it’s like inside two South Florida hospitals battling the coronavirus. We take you inside with exclusive video diaries, captured by the healthcare workers on the front lines.

Lucadet “Luc” Vedrine describes himself as a “man of the book” but he says these past months have tested his limits.  “Until my time comes, I’m protected and I just hope this (pandemic) will be gone, that this will leave us,” Vedrine told NBC 6 after finishing another hectic day in the intensive care unit at Memorial Hospital West...

It can sometimes take more than a week to get a coronavirus test back, but NBC 6 Investigators have confirmed some hospital workers return to work before they know if they’re positive or negative. Their union says this situation is putting workers at risk.

It can sometimes take more than a week to get a coronavirus test back — but NBC 6 Investigator Phil Prazan confirmed hospital workers return to work before they know if they’re positive or negative.

In most scenarios prior to COVID-19, family members with loved ones in the hospital often helped with simple tasks for the patient, but now those duties are solely falling on nurses and hospital staff.  From his hospital bed, John Place detailed his painful experience dealing with coronavirus on Facebook Live. “At 6:30, I asked the nurse bring me ice,” he…

Help is on the way to Miami-Dade County’s Jackson Health System, Florida’s governor announced Tuesday. “We are going to be diverting some of our contract personnel to Jackson so we are sending, starting tomorrow, 100 contract personnel, medical personnel, mostly nurses to be able to augment their operations,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said. Not a minute too soon, according to...

The medical director of Miami-Dade’s largest intensive care system sees patients skewing younger and, in some cases, getting sicker than older patients did during the first influx of COVID patients.

Florida added more than 10,000 cases in its daily coronavirus update for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak began. NBC 6’s Tony Pipitone reports.

For those who thought April was the cruelest month, the head of Miami-Dade’s public hospital system says July could be bad, as well. “If we listen to our experts, we think that the month of July will be hot in this pandemic, and not just in temperature,” Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Heath, told the board of county commissioners....

Despite testing positive for coronavirus, people everywhere are still showing up to work and not telling their bosses so that they can still get paid. That’s one of the many issues the CEO of Jackson Health System sees with many COVID patients.

Despite testing positive for coronavirus, people everywhere are still showing up to work and not telling their bosses so that they can still get paid.

As new infection counts set records in Florida, hospitals are seeing more patients in emergency and intensive-care units — and they’re younger this time around.

While more things reopen and people head out, Florida hit another record number of confirmed COVID cases. As NBC 6 Investigator Tony Pipitone found, hospitals are also seeing more patients.

Healthcare workers are fighting the COVID-19 battle on multiple fronts. What’s known as PPE – personal protective equipment – is a precious commodity.  “We don’t have everything, no hospital does,” said Rene Sanchez, the AFSCME Local 1363 president representing 5,000 employees at Jackson Health System. “My concern is that if we’re asking our men and women to go out there and protect...

Seven residents at a Miami nursing home have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials with the nursing facility confirmed on Saturday. According to Jackson Memorial Health System, the residents lived in Jackson Memorial’s Long-Term Care Center. Officials say they are working with Florida’s Department of Health to implement “emergency procedures” to protect and test the other 169 residents....

Ricki Lake has been very candid about being sexually abused as a child and in her new book, “Your Best Birth,” she explains how giving birth can bring back the trauma of abuse. Access Hollywood‘sMaria Menounos sat down with the star who opened up about the issue in her new book. VIEW THE PHOTOS: From Talk Show Queen To...

Authorities are investigating after a man has reportedly been seen posing as a doctor at several South Florida hospitals.

The City of Miami Police Department said five people were shot in the Overtown neighborhood Saturday night.

This Fourth of July there will, of course, be fireworks at night. Sadly for some South Florida families, the event won’t be the same. Those families lost their kids to gun violence in recent weeks.

The Miami Police Department has released body camera footage from an incident in May in which an officer’s foot was run over during a traffic stop allegedly by the driver of a stolen vehicle who was arrested after a chase.