Bill Levesque joined the BOB体育 staff in May 2017 as a science writer covering the Institute on Aging and research of faculty physicians in the College of Medicine. He formerly worked as a reporter at Florida鈥檚 largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times, for nearly 23 years covering a variety of beats, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the military, business news, agriculture and courts. Prior to that, he was a reporter at the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger, the Providence Journal, United Press International and the Fall River (Mass.) Herald News and has won numerous awards for his work. A native Rhode Islander, Bill is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a degree in journalism.
The nation is in the midst of the latest coronavirus surge, with the highly contagious delta variant fueling a record number of hospitalizations in Florida.鈥�
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University of Florida Health researchers are joining an ambitious global effort led by The Rockefeller Foundation to better track the coronavirus and its鈥�
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It鈥檚 a term we鈥檙e going to hear much more frequently during the final chapter of the COVID-19 pandemic 鈥� herd immunity. With millions of Americans being鈥�
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