Community: Orange County

Democratic lawmaker wants people to “understand the difference between critical race theory and African-American history.”

Both maps propose Ocoee be consolidated into District 2, while Winter Garden, Oakland and Windermere remain in District 1.

Map is still likely to change before reaching the Board of County Commissioners.

Committee members grappling with issues of future population growth, keeping communities of interest together as they attempt to draw fair and equitable lines

Orange County's new online census dashboard provides detailed population data, showing a significant population growth in Oakland, Ocoee, Windermere and Winter Garden

It's contagious. It's nasty. And cases are doubling every two weeks among unvaccinated people. Infectious disease specialist Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University gets us up to speed.

VoxPopuli asked William Schaffner, M.D., professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to weigh in with the details.

We ran the top concerns of vaccine skeptics, culled from a Nextdoor thread, by Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Here's what he had to say.

As vaccinations increase and the positivity rate decreases, mask restrictions ease. Mayor aims for 70 percent vaccination of eligible population to rescind mask mandate.

Beginning Monday, Florida residents 40 and older will be eligible to get a Covid-19 vaccine. The following Monday, anyone 18 and up can also get it. Plus, the state will allow 16 and 17 year olds to get only the Pfizer vaccine.