It’s Monday, July 27th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. It's not hospital beds that present a problem as coronavirus surges. South Florida hospitals need more nurses to treat patients in those beds. After four months of battling COVID-19, hospital staffs are burned out or at home with the virus.

It’s Friday, July 24th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has scrubbed his planned Republican National Convention scheduled for Florida next month, citing a “flare-up” of the coronavirus. Trump's formal renomination will still go forward in North Carolina.

It’s Thursday, July 23rd and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. Florida’s pandemic death toll increased by 140 people on Wednesday, only the second time as many deaths have been recorded in a daily report. The state Department of Health reported 9,785 more people have been infected by COVID-19, the second day in a row cases were fewer than 10,000.

It’s Wednesday, July 22nd and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Kristie McIntyre. One hundred and thirty-six more people have died of COVID-19 as Florida’s recent deaths again reached triple digits during the crisis. Florida’s latest pandemic report on Tuesday shows the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 now stands at 5,319. The record daily death total was set last Thursday, with 156.

It’s Tuesday, July 21st and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Kristie McIntyre Florida’s teachers sued the state on Monday, saying an order from the governor requiring the reopening of school buildings next month risks the health and safety of Florida’s families and school employees.

It’s Monday, July 20th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. Florida’s coronavirus cases continued to soar Sunday, with the state reporting another 12,478 cases. The state also reported an additional 89 deaths, bringing the total over 5,000.

It’s Friday, July 17th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. Florida got a nasty one-two punch of coronavirus news on Thursday: The state reported 156 more deaths, and 13,965 more COVID-19 cases. The state has never reported more fatalities on a daily pandemic report before, and there only has been one other day with more infections.

It’s Thursday, July 16th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Trevor Ontiveros. Florida might be minimizing the depth of its COVID-19 problem by underreporting its rate of positive tests, experts say. The method used to calculate the “positivity rate” — a critical measure of the pandemic’s progression — puts more emphasis on negative tests, skewing the results in that direction.

It’s Wednesday, July 15th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Kristie McIntyre. Florida reported 132 more deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday. That’s the highest number of deaths reported by the state on any day throughout the pandemic.

It’s Tuesday, July 14th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Kristie McIntyre. Florida announced another 12,624 cases of COVID-19 Monday, the second-highest daily total for a state now known as one of the world’s coronavirus hotspots. The number of people hospitalized continued to rise, going from 7,511 Sunday to 8,072 on Monday. Broward County reported a 30% increase in hospitalizations since Sunday.