Hope Hospice has been providing support to patients nearing the end of their lives and their families in southwest Florida for more than 40 years. But since the arrival of Covid-19 they’ve had to modify how they provide services to protect patients and caregivers, and have moved their support groups to virtual settings.

Election workers across the state of Georgia are conducting a hand count of every ballot cast for President during the general election. While it’s often being reported in the news as a recount, what’s happening is actually a kind of post-election audit that was not triggered by the closeness of the race, or by a candidate challenging the outcome, but because of a new Georgia State Law.

As the coronavirus outbreak continues researchers and doctors continue working to find new ways to treat Covid-19. Since the end of April Lee Health has been testing the use of convalescent plasma. It’s taken from the blood of people who have recovered from Covid-19 and then infused into people who are sick to hopefully reduce the severity of the disease.

We explore the coronavirus pandemic response in the United States from a public health perspective with Dr. Marissa Levine, Professor of Public Health Practice and Family Medicine in the University of South Florida College of Public Health, where she focuses on population health improvement and teaches leadership.

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic we’ve worked to highlight the impact it’s having on different aspects of society and our lives. Today we’re looking at how it has affected those with Alzheimer’s Disease and other memory disorders, and their caregivers.

Back in mid-October the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began discharging billions of gallons of water from Lake Okeechobee down the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers. And with Tropical Storm Eta dumping rain across the region they have continued, for now.

Tuesday’s elections and ballot counting has run rather smoothly in Florida compared to states like Pennsylvania that remain in the national spotlight with the presidential race between Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden still too close to call.

Black Spartacus is a thorough and enthralling history of Toussaint Louverture, the one-time enslaved man who led the successful slave revolt in Haiti, while A Place at the Table is a middle-grade book that teels the unlikely friendship between two 6th-graders from very different backgrounds.

The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program is the longest-running study of a wild dolphin population anywhere in the world. Since 1970 more than 52,400 dolphin group sightings have yielded more than 158,000 identifications of more than 5,600 individually distinctive dolphins in and around Sarasota Bay.

Drunken brawls, coercion, and lace curtains. Believe it or not, how regular people vote was not something the founding fathers thought much about, or planned for. Americans went from casting votes at drunken parties in the town square to private booths behind a drawn curtain.