Many of the experts we see guiding us through the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation and around the world are men, but in South Florida it’s women who are the most recognizable faces helping us understand the coronavirus. “It’s a huge responsibility because being in the spotlight, about something that is absolutely serious, and a problem that all of us need. Florida Aug 28, 2020
Many of the experts we see guiding us through the pandemic are men and it’s no wonder now that historically the people most noted for their work in math and science have been male. But in South Florida, it’s women who possess the most recognizable faces helping us understand COVID-19. NBC 6’s Nathalia Ortiz reports.
There are more places to get vaccinated and more people who can get the shots. Also, the saga of sewers in Fort Lauderdale and a controversial immigration detention center may reopen in Homestead.
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The nation’s immigration judges are alleging unfair labor practices after the Department of Justice included a blog post from a virulent anti-immigration website in a morning briefing and challenged the judges’ right to be represented by a labor union. The union representing the country’s more than 400 immigration judges filed a pair of complaints on Friday with the Federal Labor. NBC Sep 9, 2019
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The daily rundown Between Monday and Tuesday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 5,610 (nearly 0.3 percent), to 1,878,533; active hospitalizations went up by 23 (nearly 0.46 percent), to 4,198; deaths of Florida residents rose by 148 (nearly 0.5 percent), to 30,213; 2,748,495 Floridians have at least one dose of the vaccine.
Alexus Braxton, 45, was found dead Feb. 4 inside her northeast Miami-Dade home at the Carmel at the California Condominiums.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, Braxton s death is at least the sixth violent death of a transgender person in 2021 and the first of the year in Miami-Dade County. 2020 was considered the most fatally violent year for transgender people, according to the HRC. Police and animal services officers in Miami are cracking down on the leash laws after an unleashed dog at a popular park attacked a boy and his father. NBC 6 s Alyssa Hyman reports
Miami Cracks Down on Leash Laws After Dog Attacks Child, Father