Author: Amira Sweilem, Florida Today

Small Business Saturday has been increasingly important to local businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Decline of COVID-19 cases in Brevard County stagnates. Meanwhile, the vaccination rate continues to slowly creep up.

Florida Tech and Heinz collaborate for ‘Marz Edition’ ketchup made by tomatoes grown in Martian conditions in Brevard County.

Space Coast kids ages 5-11 years old can now get vaccinated

Cases continue to decrease in Brevard County. Officials say to keep up the efforts to get to a low transmission status.

Recent CDC approval paves the way for more of Brevard County’s children to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Cases on the Space Coast continue to decrease. Brevard County is now considered a community of moderate transmission.

Oath Keeper membership information leak shows that many Oath Keepers reside in Brevard County.

U.S. hospitals only need to stabilize a patient before they need to release them to comply with the Federal law, even those with nowhere to go.

Brevard County is one case per 100,000 away from being a community of moderate transmission based on the CDC’s transmission risk indicators.

CDC sets recommendations for who can get a third dose of a vaccine.

COVID-19 cases in the Space Coast are decreasing. However, the vaccination rate continues to stagnate.

Brevard County officials expect case rates to drop but caution residents to continue to vaccinate and use ‘mitigation measures’.

Brevard County is still a high transmission community. County officials urge residents to remain cautious.

The case positivity rate in Brevard County is still higher than the rate needed to be a low transmission community and to achieve herd immunity.

Steward Health Care’s chief medical officer for Florida urged Brevard County residents to get vaccinated after a brutal summer of COVID hospitalizations.

The fact that fewer people in Brevard are getting COVID-19 vaccinations than elsewhere could explain why kids here are getting sicker, the CDC shows.

Positivity rate decreases, vaccinations slowly creep up, but death rate continues to rise.

The effort to add more coronavirus test sites in the Space Coast to meet demand continues with at least three new locations added this week.

Brevard County has seen an increase in the Delta since the start of June. The CDC reports that about 91% of COVID-19 cases in Florida are Delta.