According to the 6 p.m. DOH Dashboard, Florida now has 16826 COVID-19 cases (up 1,128 over the past 24 hours) and 371 deaths (up 48). Â Escambia only has 10 more cases, total…
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Escambia County has another COVID-19 death
According to the DOH Dashboard for 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, Escambia County had another COVID-19 death, bringing total to three. Â The county now has 18 cases among residents or staff of…
COVID-19: Mid-afternoon update
Collecting Plasma OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center, is actively collecting plasma from people who have recovered from the coronavirus so it can be transfused to people with life-threatening coronavirus infection in hopes…
Gilley looking at how to reopen beaches
At the virtual “Coffee with the Commissioner” this morning, County Administrator Janice Gilley said she’s looking at ways to reopen beaches in Escambia County, even though the decision to keep them close…
Latest COVID data and a free burger
As per the 11 a.m EDT DOH Dashboard, the COVID-19 cases surpassed 15K in the past 24 hours – new total 15,456. Â Escambia County increased by 15 cases, a dozen in the…
COVID-19: Wednesday morning update
City Yard Waste Pickup Running Behind Schedule Due to a significant increase in yard waste being placed curbside for pickup in recent weeks, City of Pensacola Sanitation is running approximately one week…
Escambia Co. Assisted Living Facility: ‘High risk for an outbreak’
According to yesterday’s situation report (SITREP) from the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center, a Level II response team has been requested for “an ALF that has been determined to be a high…
Local hospitals set record for COVID-19 collections
Two days after Inweekly reported that West Florida Hospital had collected less than three-percent of all COVID-19 specimens, the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center reports that hospitals set a record for collections….
Escambia COVID-19 cases far from flattening
According to latest DOH dashboard (10 a.m. April 7), Escambia County has reported 29 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours –24 since 6 p.m. yesterday. As we reported this morning,…
COVID-19: Latest overnight info and charts
According to the latest data from DOH (6 p.m. April 6), Escambia County has two more COVID-19 cases tied to long-term care facilities, bringing the total to three. We had zero a week…
What Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill is hiding from you
According to the latest data from the Florida Department of Health, Escambia County had 16 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. As the our newly designed “Underhill Chart” below shows,…
COVID-19: Underhill draws a misleading chart
Commissioner Doug Underhill reports: “With the exception of the spike when the big data dump came in on the 30th which cleared the backlog, the new infection rate is pretty darned flat.”…
In a leadership void, readers want answers
While the Escambia Board of County Commissioners and Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson want to punt on listing any non-essential businesses that should be closed under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Safer-at-Home order, Â readers are…
Two Milton area prison inmates test positive
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Two inmates at a Northwest Florida prison have tested positive for COVID-19, the Florida Department of Corrections said Sunday. The inmates are…
Bingo bounced back to DeSantis
At its April 2 regular meeting, the Escambia County Commission had little appetite for issuing an emergency order closing any business—except for bingo parlors and maybe abortion clinics. But in the end,…
COVID-19 pandemic becomes more real locally
DOH reported Sunday evening that the positive cases are now at 12,350 and the death toll is 221. Â On Sunday, March 29, Florida had only 4,950 cases and 60 deaths. In one…
Nurses exhausted but crushing it
Last week, I received this Facebook message from a local health care worker (HCW) that offers a perspective on those on the frontlines in this battle with COVID-19: Everyone is thinking of…
Sunday, April 5 COVID-19 update
As of Saturday, April 4 at 6 p.m. EDT, Florida edged closer t0 12K cases, up 1,277 in the past 24 hours. Â Deaths increased by 25 to 195 total. Last Saturday, Escambia…
Escambia has first COVID-19 death, state surpasses 11K cases
According the DOH 11:30 a.m. EDT report, Escambia County had its first death related to COVID-19, and hospitalizations have increase from five Friday 6:30 p.m. to nine this morning – nearly doubling…
How many cases are in your zip code area?
On Friday, the Florida Department of Health updated its online dashboard to provide additional information and functionality. Now included in the dashboard is a map with cases broken down by zip code….
