Breana Ross

Lee Health is asking the public to mask their children after a steep rise in emergency department visits at Golisano Children’s Hospital. According to the hospital system, the children’s hospital saw 200 emergency room visits on Thursday with 123 children exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. “For comparison, the children’s hospital emergency department typically received about 75 visits […]

Concern for the spread of the coronavirus is the reason a Southwest Florida support group for children who have lost a parent is shutting down in-person gatherings. This comes as a volunteer for this support group died of COVID-19 over the weekend. It also comes at a time when the need for this service is […]

COVID numbers continue to surge in Southwest Florida hospitals. Emergency rooms are overcrowded and Healthcare workers are overworked. Soon patients could end up staying in hallways or the cafeteria, as the situation worsens and cases continue to climb. “The part that’s the most exhausting is that we are not seeing the relief at all,” said […]

Hospitals and emergency rooms and continuing to see more and more COVID-19 patients. And, unfortunately, many convenient and free mass testing sites are now closed. The testing site at CenturyLink Sports Complex has been sitting empty since the end of May because there wasn’t enough demand. One urgent care group says that 5,000 people a […]

People are spending hours in Lee County’s emergency rooms while hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. People are being told not to come unless they have a true emergency. One woman told WINK News she waited seven hours outside of a crowded ER before she could get to a hospital bed. Her doctor told her […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis is doubling down on his stance against mask mandates, but doctors are firm on their position too, saying that children are suffering from COVID-19. During a press conference in Surfside on Tuesday morning, DeSantis pointed to stats saying the delta variant is not causing more kids to get very sick. “You’ve not […]

The School District of Lee County has released the form for students to opt-out of wearing masks. To access the form, follow this link. SDLC will require face coverings as a mitigation measure until Sept. 10, but allow parents to opt their child out of wearing a face mask by filling out the form available […]

The School District of Lee County announced Sunday via an email to parents that it will be requiring masks for the 2021-2022 school year. The district says it will respect the rights of parents to make health decisions for their children by allowing them to opt-out of wearing a face covering. You can fill out […]

An executive order from the governor says public schools can’t mandate masks, but what about private schools? They aren’t part of that order, so they make their own rules, and Thursday, the Diocese of Venice did just that. It mandated masks indoors temporarily in all Catholic schools in counties with a high positivity rate, which […]

Construction Manager John Tobler has become the first Black person in Lee County to be awarded a large, prime construction contract for the School District of Lee County. How will they rise to the historic challenge? It takes hard work and dedication to break barriers, to pave your own path, to be “the first.” John […]