Expert cites COVID backlog, political will as factors behind increased pace.

As churches across the country grapple with how to balance worship and quarantine, a Tampa-area pastor has been arrested for holding services and violating a county "Safer At Home" order. In a country ...

TAMPA, Fla. – The Florida Surgeon General expressed support for recent federal changes on mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and urged expanded attention to vaccine injuries during a news ...

MIAMI -- Fighting a surge in coronavirus cases in the spring, Florida appeared to be "flattening the curve" as theme parks shuttered, sugar sand beaches closed and residents heeded orders to stay home ...

TAMPA (WFLA) – A Florida pastor who held packed services last Sunday and then was arrested said he is shutting down the church. “I have to do this to protect the congregation, not from the virus, but ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN) marked the opening of its International Headquarters on March 5 at the University of South Florida (USF)Institute for Translational Virology and Innovation (ITVI), a GVN ...

TAMPA, Fla. (August 27, 2025) — For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — the world’s first recorded pandemic — in the ...

Six years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans are still living with its long-term effects.