Abe Aboraya
90.7 WMFE
Orlando, FL, United States
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Centra Care’s COVID-19 positivity rate: A staggering 39%
AdventHealth's urgent care centers are have nearly doubled the rate of positive COVID-19 tests in the last two weeks - setting a new record. Centra Care’s seven-day rolling positivity rate is a whopping 39 percent. That’s → Read More
Failing the Disney stress test: How to be heart healthy on vacation
It was March 2017, and Larry Fine was on a Disney vacation in Orlando when his heart attacked him. He had a big brunch, and watched The Muppets Present ... Great Moments in American History show. → Read More
DeSantis: Florida will get four new monoclonal antibody sites, hints at testing restrictions
Central Florida will get another monoclonal antibody treatment site, the state announced Monday, as an increase in federal supply is expected. At as South Florida press conference Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state will open → Read More
‘Keep Dancing Orlando’: A Pulse Survivor And The SWAT Officer Who Saved Him Catch Up
On June 12th, 2016, Orlando Torres spent three hours huddled in a bathroom at Pulse nightclub, desperately trying not to attract the attention of the gunman. Torres and Timothy Stanley, one of the SWAT officers who rescued him, visited the WMFE studios five years after the shooting to talk about their experience. → Read More
‘It just hits you right in the heart’: Why one Floridian has donated 100 gallons of blood
"Getting stuck with the needle is nothing compared to what the people who need the blood are going through," says Gerry Hazuka. He's donated more than 100 gallons of blood since the late 1980s. → Read More
Centra Care’s COVID-19 positivity rate balloons to 21%, AdventHealth braces for surge
AdventHealth has reactivated its COVID-19 command center as the rate of positive test results spiked at its Centra Care urgent care centers. At Centra Care, the rate of positive COVID-19 tests has gone from 5.5 percent → Read More
Fatal opioid overdoses spike in Central Florida, even after pandemic restrictions lifted
Every day, one person dies in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties from a fatal opioid overdose. A report out Wednesday from looked at state, federal and local data. Project Opioid's report found overdose deaths from opioids → Read More
National analysis finds Florida has wide health care gaps along racial, ethnic lines
Black and Native Americans in Florida have some of the worst health care outcomes in the U.S., ranking in the bottom fourth in a new analysis of health data from the Commonwealth Fund. In its report → Read More
‘Miya’s Law’ to tighten apartment security introduced after 19-year-old’s murder
Lawmakers want apartment complexes to do more to protect tenants after the death of Miya Marcano. 19-year-old Marcano was murdered earlier this year. Police say a maintenance worker who later killed himself used a master key fob → Read More
Grady Hendrix: Author events suck (not his), Halloween books to read and why COVID haunts writers
Grady Hendrix has two books that are being turned into shows: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group. He talks with WMFE about his upcoming event through the Orange County Library, what to read this Halloween season and what he's done to characters that haunted him. → Read More
Orange County Health Department Targets Hispanic Residents With COVID Events
Orange County health officials are targeting the area’s Spanish speaking population when it comes to getting out information about Covid-19 vaccines and treatments. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows the share of vaccinations → Read More
9/11 Was Hard On Responders – And Rescue Dogs: ‘We Would Hide And They Could Find Us.’
Retired NYPD detective Michael Saxe says the scene at Ground Zero was surreal - like something out of a war movie. There was dust and ash everywhere. People had written eerie messages in the windows. And that was just one day one. → Read More
In Brevard, Health First Minimum Wage Will Jump To $15 Per Hour Next Month
The largest hospital in Brevard County is increasing its minimum wage, ahead of the deadline imposed by a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2020. Health First announced that all of its employees will earn at → Read More
Survey: 68 Florida Hospitals Have Less Than 48 Hours Worth Of Oxygen
The Florida Hospital Association is sounding the alarm, saying a survey shows 68 hospitals have less than a 48-hour supply of oxygen. Hospitals are using three to four times as much oxygen as they were before → Read More
‘We Probably Called Over 50 places’ – Florida COVID-19 Patients Are Leaving The State For ECMO
The text message she got from Glenn Gotay was hard to make out, almost like a child had written it. Like many parents, 32-year-old Gotay was worried about his seven-year-old daughter starting school. "It says, 'Can you → Read More
- Central Florida News
Four events have been cancelled at the Orange County Convention Center in the last week. Those conferences were expected to bring in more than 17,ooo tourists. Orange County Convention Center Director Mark Tester says the cancellations → Read More
Florida Adds 20,000+ Cases Thursday, Hospitalizations Still Rising
Florida added 20,133 cases Thursday, an increase over the last three days, continuing an upward surge from COVID-19. Statewide, another 400 patients were hospitalized in the last day, continuing a record-breaking surge of patients. Currently, more → Read More
Florida Continues Record COVID-19 Hospitalizations
More Floridians are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any point in the pandemic: more than 12,400 patients across the sunshine state. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Nearly 2,500 Floridians are → Read More
The Roaring 2020s: Why We’ve Entered The Gilded Age Of Comic Books
Welcome to the Roaring 2020s. Comics printed from the early 1930s to the late 1950s are considered the Golden Age of comics. Now, we've entered a whole new era of comic books: the Gilded Age of → Read More
Daytona Beach Police Department Officer In Critical Condition After Being Shot
Federal and state police agencies are assisting in the search for a man wanted for shooting a Daytona Beach Police Department officer in the head last night. Police are searching for 29-year-old Othal Wallace, who they → Read More