Five years after arrival of COVID-19, almost 100,000 dead, a changed Florida Along with almost 100,000 dead in Florida from COVID-19, the virus' imprint on schools, workplaces and politics lingers after five years. John Kennedy Tallahassee Democrat

...since March 2020, almost 100,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Florida. The state also has changed in many ways, with the roots of this evolution in the virus.

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