{"id":10044,"date":"2025-08-13T16:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10044"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:43:47","slug":"florida-covid-cases-spike-right-before-the-start-of-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/florida-covid-cases-spike-right-before-the-start-of-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida COVID cases spike right before the start of schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfpublic.org\/health\/2025-08-13\/florida-covid-cases-spike-right-before-school\">Central Florida News<\/a> Once again, a summer wave of COVID-19 is spiking across the country and in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Department of Health, Orange County reported the third-highest case totals in the state at the end of July, just before kids returned to the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve seen generally two COVID bumps during the year. We usually get our winter bump, which tends to be a little bit larger than what we see as the summer bump, and so far, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re seeing right now,\u201d said Cindy Prins, an epidemiologist from the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is different is the level of those with updated COVID vaccines, which is low. State data show that 3,200 kids 5-11 years of age received either a vaccine or a booster so far this year. Those numbers are on track to be less than years before: 19,600 in 2024 and 37,700 in 2023, and 289,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With kids back in the classroom this week, and college kids returning to universities next week, it\u2019s hard to predict if the numbers will continue to increase, Prins said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Florida News Once again, a summer wave of COVID-19 is spiking across the country and in Florida. According to the Department of Health, Orange County reported the third-highest case totals in the state at the end of July, just before kids returned to the classroom. \u201cWe&#8217;ve seen generally two COVID bumps during the year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10045,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions\/10045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}