Mayor Defends Hospital Leaders At yesterday’s presser, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson addressed the smear campaign at the county to discredit local health care leaders. Inweekly: “There’s been a whisper campaign trying to…
Category: Health
Brownsville COVID-19 testing site suspended for severe weather
The drive-through and walk-up COVID-19 testing site at Brownsville Community Center, located at 3200 W. De Soto St., will be closed Tuesday, March 31 due to severe weather. For more information about additional…
Presser Notes: Five Percent and Better on the Bluffs
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Nudging down a bit, the Pensacola area’s percentage of COVID-19 tests yielding positive results is running about five percent. “Glad to see we’re in that five percent range….
Escambia makes Top 12 COVID-19 list
As of 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 30, Â Escambia County moved into the Top 12 list of Florida counties with positive COVID-19 cases. Escambia has the smallest population of the counties listed, which…
‘Northern tier’ college blames COVID-19 on warm Southern beaches, Escambia positives double
A group of students from the University of Wisconsin – Madison have tested positive for coronavirus after a spring break trip to Alabama’s beaches. The university’s Health Services announced a “cluster†of…
Latest local numbers
From Mayor Grover Robinson: Just received from Sacred Heart for their drive in. 3/30 4:55 PM 2,276 total test taken 1,879 test returned. 99 positive 5.3% 1,780 negative. 62 Escambia 22 SantaRosa…
DeSantis pushes ‘Safe At Home’ for the warmest part of the state, south Florida
By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis is imposing a regional “safer at home†set of guidelines for Southeast Florida counties hit hard by the novel coronavirus….
Mythbuster: Our climate does not make Escambia less conducive to COVID-19
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill sent out a mass email to county voters from his voteunderhill@gmail.com account that states: “Our environment is not as conducive to COVID-19 as the northern tier states like…
Gulf Power customers could get break on bills
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Hundreds of thousands of Northwest Florida residents and businesses could get a break on their electric bills in May, after Gulf Power…
Community Health Northwest Florida, Ascension Sacred Heart open third drive-thru testing site
As NorthEscambia.com reported this weekend: Escambia County, Community Health Northwest Florida and Ascension Sacred Heart have partnered to open a drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Community Health Pediatrics located at 470 South…
COVID-19: More cases, Pensacola firefighter among them, one death in Okaloosa
From DOH: Today, as of 11 a.m., there are 5,473 total Florida cases. While Florida’s testing has increased over the past week, the percent of those testing positive for COVID-19 overall is…
Whisper campaign to smear hospital execs has begun
There is a whisper campaign inside the Escambia County administration to smear the heads of Baptist Health Care and Ascension Sacred Heart as the Board of County Commissioners prepares to debate re-opening…