FORT MYERS Police investigating stabbing at Fort Myers home According to the Fort Myers Police Department, there is a female with a stab wound. The victim is receiving treatment. She’s said to have minor injuries.
FORT MYERS Edison Grand residents reach 11 days with no A/C People who live at the Edison Grand apartments in Fort Myers say they’ve been living without A/C for over a week.
FORT MYERS FL Supreme Court rules that you can be forced from car during traffic stop The Florida Supreme Court ruled that you can be kicked out of your car during a traffic stop so K9 can search it.
NAPLES America’s First Responders and Military Museum moving out of the Naples Airport into new location It may be small in stature, but the significance of the artifacts located inside America’s Military and First Responders Museum in the Naples Airport is anything but small in what it means to those who served in the military or lost someone who served. Soon, there will be a bigger space to display all of […]
FORT MYERS Honoring lives lost on Memorial Day Cheerful noise filled the Fort Myers Memorial Gardens Memorial Day service before the United States Coast Guard flew over a crowd of veterans and children.
FORT MYERS Councilman voices concern over new Fort Myers police review board law There’s the new Florida law on the horizon, which limits the power of citizen-run police review boards, which concerns one Fort Myers council member.
FORT MYERS BEACH Man pronounced dead at hospital after Fort Myers Beach medical scene A man was pronounced dead at a local hospital after suffering a medical episode at Fort Myers Beach on Memorial Day.
FORT MYERS 105-year-old veteran remembers lost brothers-in-arms on Memorial Day Each Memorial Day former Lieutenant Colonel Donald (Don) Longer has lived through, he’s done so with a heavy heart.
FORT MYERS Miracle Moment: Golisano’s tech specialist joins FL Guard Brad Devlin recently joined the Florida State Guard, something that was laid on his heart while helping neighbors after Hurricane Ian.
CAPE CORAL Accidental drowning: a cautionary tale for parents Five-year-old Maddie loves watching “The Lion King”, but she didn’t always have to sit in a chair to watch her favorite movie.
CAPE CORAL 43rd Annual Memorial Day Service held at Cape Coral funeral home The Southwest Florida community comes together on Memorial Day to honor the men and women who lost their lives in war.
FORT MYERS BEACH Work left to do on Fort Myers Beach Lynne Dajnese, dressed in a red, white and blue American flag-plastered shirt, sat on her Fort Myers beach porch.
LEHIGH ACRES Crash with injuries in Lehigh Acres shuts down WB Lee Blvd. The Florida Highway Patrol is responding to a crash with injuries in Lehigh Acres and have partially shut down a road.
LEHIGH ACRES Officials investigating fire that left 4 semi-trucks charred in Lehigh Acres Four semi-trucks were left charred by flames that fire marshals are calling a criminal act.
PORT CHARLOTTE Latest details on 2-year-old shot by 4-year-old in Port Charlotte How did a 4-year-old get hold of a gun, and who will be held responsible for that child shooting a 2-year-old inside a home over the weekend?
FORT MYERS Police investigating stabbing at Fort Myers home According to the Fort Myers Police Department, there is a female with a stab wound. The victim is receiving treatment. She’s said to have minor injuries.
FORT MYERS Edison Grand residents reach 11 days with no A/C People who live at the Edison Grand apartments in Fort Myers say they’ve been living without A/C for over a week.
FORT MYERS FL Supreme Court rules that you can be forced from car during traffic stop The Florida Supreme Court ruled that you can be kicked out of your car during a traffic stop so K9 can search it.
NAPLES America’s First Responders and Military Museum moving out of the Naples Airport into new location It may be small in stature, but the significance of the artifacts located inside America’s Military and First Responders Museum in the Naples Airport is anything but small in what it means to those who served in the military or lost someone who served. Soon, there will be a bigger space to display all of […]
FORT MYERS Honoring lives lost on Memorial Day Cheerful noise filled the Fort Myers Memorial Gardens Memorial Day service before the United States Coast Guard flew over a crowd of veterans and children.
FORT MYERS Councilman voices concern over new Fort Myers police review board law There’s the new Florida law on the horizon, which limits the power of citizen-run police review boards, which concerns one Fort Myers council member.
FORT MYERS BEACH Man pronounced dead at hospital after Fort Myers Beach medical scene A man was pronounced dead at a local hospital after suffering a medical episode at Fort Myers Beach on Memorial Day.
FORT MYERS 105-year-old veteran remembers lost brothers-in-arms on Memorial Day Each Memorial Day former Lieutenant Colonel Donald (Don) Longer has lived through, he’s done so with a heavy heart.
FORT MYERS Miracle Moment: Golisano’s tech specialist joins FL Guard Brad Devlin recently joined the Florida State Guard, something that was laid on his heart while helping neighbors after Hurricane Ian.
CAPE CORAL Accidental drowning: a cautionary tale for parents Five-year-old Maddie loves watching “The Lion King”, but she didn’t always have to sit in a chair to watch her favorite movie.
CAPE CORAL 43rd Annual Memorial Day Service held at Cape Coral funeral home The Southwest Florida community comes together on Memorial Day to honor the men and women who lost their lives in war.
FORT MYERS BEACH Work left to do on Fort Myers Beach Lynne Dajnese, dressed in a red, white and blue American flag-plastered shirt, sat on her Fort Myers beach porch.
LEHIGH ACRES Crash with injuries in Lehigh Acres shuts down WB Lee Blvd. The Florida Highway Patrol is responding to a crash with injuries in Lehigh Acres and have partially shut down a road.
LEHIGH ACRES Officials investigating fire that left 4 semi-trucks charred in Lehigh Acres Four semi-trucks were left charred by flames that fire marshals are calling a criminal act.
PORT CHARLOTTE Latest details on 2-year-old shot by 4-year-old in Port Charlotte How did a 4-year-old get hold of a gun, and who will be held responsible for that child shooting a 2-year-old inside a home over the weekend?
Credit: CDC As the coronavirus continues to mutate and change, should our strategy to end the pandemic change as well? Florida was the beginning of a dangerous and deadly trend in the United States. Dr. Micheal Teng works in Molecular Medicine at University of South Florida Health. “We were the first state to have B.1.1.7 as the dominant strain,” said Dr. Teng. And what happened here, has spread. Now, The B.1.1.7 Variant also known as the UK Variant is the dominant strain nationally. Dr. Teng says that’s a problem, but not a problem we can’t handle. “It’s pretty clear now from the data that it does cause more disease and is more transmissible,” he said. Dr. Nicole Iovine is an Infectious Disease Specialist with the University of Florida. “The good news is that it seems that the vaccines do work and do provide protective immunity against them,” said Dr. Iovine. We might not always be so lucky. Dr. Rachael Piltch-Loeb is a Preparedness Fellow at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. “What we want to do is get as many people who are able to be vaccinated as quickly as possible, so that we reduce the likelihood that we come in contact with a variant that the vaccine doesn’t work for,” said Dr. Piltch-Loeb. UF Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Iovine says now we are in a race to see which will spread more quickly – vaccines or variants. “The more we can vaccinate people, the less opportunity that the virus has not only to transmit but also to create more mutants in an infected person,” said Dr. Iovine. “We’re vaccinating at a rate that’s much higher than the transmission rate now. So this is a good thing,” Dr, Teng said. Right now, we’re pulling ahead. Currently in Florida, we have almost 3,500 confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, which equates to about one-fifth of all cases here in the U.S. We also have 87 cases of the P.1 variant and 25 cases of the B.1.351 variant. The rise of variants doesn’t change what you should be doing to slow the spread of coronavirus. Researchers say there hasn’t been a variant that can get around a well-fitting mask.