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COVID plagues Miami-Dade school system Miami Times / Bianca Marcof / September 14, 2021 Bus drivers are dying in the midst of a shortage. Educators are wondering where their colleagues are. The number of deaths in Florida's largest school district paints an alarming picture of the state of schools reopening in the middle of a pandemic. Thirteen unvaccinated Miami-Dade County Public… Read more »

Rep. Frederica Wilson on Liberty City teacher who died of COVID-19: ‘He was irreplaceable' Local 10 News / Terrell Forney / September 8, 2021 MIAMI – Rep. Frederica Wilson and a group of students met on Wednesday in Miami to honor the memory of a beloved 55-year-old teacher from Liberty City. The weather hampered a plan to release balloons in honor of Abe Coleman, who… Read more »

13 unvaccinated Miami school workers were killed by COVID-19 in recent weeks The New York Post / Jesse O'Neil / September 7, 2021 More than a dozen unvaccinated employees at Florida's largest school district have died from COVID-19 in the past three weeks, according to a report. A Miami-Dade County Public School spokeswoman said that family members have reported 13 worker deaths… Read more »

13 Miami-area school staffers have died of covid-19 this school year MSN News / Kim Bellware / September 7, 2021 Miami-Dade County Public Schools are reporting at least 13 employee deaths from covid-19 since mid-August, a tally that forecasts what could be a grim autumn for Florida educators. Spokeswoman Jaquelyn Calzadilla told The Washington Post in an email that the district is… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson voted for final passage of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, landmark, life-saving legislation that will provide urgently-needed resources to defeat the virus, put vaccines in people's arms, money into families' pockets, children safely back into classrooms and people back to work. This legislation will now go to President Biden's… Read more »

Miami, FL – As in so many aspects of American life, access to coronavirus testing, treatment, and vaccines is an equity issue. Across the state, black people have tested positive for the virus at twice the rate of whites and the vaccination rate is equally dismal. The numbers are particularly dire in Miami-Dade County communities like Opa-Locka, for example, where 53 percent of the… Read more »

Covid worries overshadow first day of new CongressPolitico / Sarah Ferris, Heather Caygle, and Olivia Beavers / January 3, 2021 The ongoing coronavirus pandemic loomed large over every aspect of Sunday's opening day of the 117th Congress, with fears of spreading the virus front and center and lawmakers fighting over masks on the floor of the House. Lawmakers crowded into the Capitol in… Read more »

Advice neededFlorida Politics / August 29, 2020The controversy over reopening schools continues around the country, especially in Florida, where new events occur on an almost daily basis. One of those events came when 10 delegation Democrats wrote to Gov. Ron DeSantis blasting a recent directive given to county health directors not to provide advice to school boards on whether to… Read more »

Experts warn Florida tourism recovery after COVID-19 will be ‘slower than 9/11'Florida Politics / Ryan Nicol / August 26, 2020Several experts, including a former Barack Obama administration official, warned that Florida's tourism industry has a long road to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic even as the hardest-hit parts of the state begin to reopen."It'll be slower than 9/11,"… Read more »