Category: Health

On Thursday, Aug. 27, the Escambia Board of County Commissioners learned only six inmates at the Escambia County Jail had been tested for COVID-19 a…

At 7:37 p.m. Sunday, Escambia County notified the media that Escambia County Corrections received a positive COVID-19 test result at its road camp. “As a…

FDOH reported 67 new COVID cases and one additional death for Escambia County.   For Thursday, Aug. 27, the agency reported a positivity rate of…

FDOH reports Escambia County has 55 new cases  – most of which are local residents and few in nursing homes and Century prison.  The county…

While Escambia County continues to move toward 11,000 total COVID cases – 10K local residents, the positivity rate is staying in single digits.  A backlog…

As a form of punishment, they are refusing to test us. Today I received another letter from female inmates in the Escambia County Corrections system,…

The Florida Department of Health has been slow to release the county daily reports. Looking at the FDOH dashboard, Escambia County now has 178 COVID…

Inweekly interviewed Jessica Gomez, who was released from the county jail recently. She said that conditions in the main jail were unsafe and “unable to…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said Monday he’d been keeping an eye on the storms in the gulf — tropical storms Marco…

FDOH reports Escambia County’s positivity rate has dipped below 5% for the first time since  June– reporting 36 cases out for 725 test results, 4.97%,…

  With students returning to schools in Escambia County, the Florida Department of Health reported the lowest positivity rate for the county since Sunday, June…

Inweekly has heard the local U.S. Census office closed down yesterday after a worker tested positive for COVID-19.  One staffer told us, “We were given…