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                Megan Reeves - Health and Medicine Reporter
                Megan Reeves
                Health and Medicine Reporter
                I write about policy and developments in health and medicine, and how they affect providers and patients in Tampa Bay and throughout Florida. I’ve been a Sunshine State resident since I was 4 and likely will never leave, though my favorite season is whenever it’s coldest. I’m a proud graduate of the University of Florida, where I decided I wanted to work for this newspaper and make St. Petersburg my home. I started my career covering local governments in north Pinellas County, then moved to reporting on education. Thrifting is my favorite thing to do, and I spend a lot of time working with a local cat rescue. You can often find me in my hammock at Lassing Park, or sipping earl grey at Black Crow in the Grand Central district. Want to talk about a story? Meet me there for a cup, my treat.
                1. Florida to lower vaccination age soon, DeSantis says. 60 and up is next.
                  Yesterday• Health
                  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to reporters in Ocala on Friday. Going forward, he said, the state will roll out vaccines according only to age.
                2. Which school workers get coronavirus vaccines? Depends on where you sign up.
                  Yesterday• Health
                  Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared at a news conference Wednesday in Crystal River, where he announced a new vaccination site and addressed a question about which Florida school employees are eligible to receive doses.
                3. Tampa’s Super Bowl was not a coronavirus super spreader, officials say
                  Mar. 3• Health
                  Fans are seen along Tampa's Riverwalk as Tampa Bay Buccaneers players glide by during a boat parade Feb. 10 after the Bucs defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 55.
                5. El gobernador de Florida planea aplicarse la vacuna de Johnson & Johnson contra el coronavirus
                  Feb. 26• CENTRO
                  Con una máscara para prevenir la propagación del COVID-19, el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, observa durante una conferencia de prensa, el martes 23 de febrero de 2021, en una farmacia de descuento Navarro en Hialeah, Florida. DeSantis anunció que las personas mayores pronto podrán para recibir las vacunas COVID-19 en las farmacias de descuento Navarro y las farmacias CVS y mas en el condado de Miami-Dade. (Foto AP / Wilfredo Lee)
                6. Florida governor plans to take Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine
                  Feb. 25• Health
                  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looks on during a news conference in Hialeah on Tuesday. At another stop in Fort Pierce on Thursday, he said he plans to take the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine once his age group is eligible.
                7. Florida will expand access to vaccines in March, April, DeSantis says
                  Feb. 25• Health
                  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions during a news conference in January. On Thursday, he spoke to reporters in Jacksonville, saying expanded access to coronavirus vaccines is coming.
                8. Florida is better off without a detailed vaccination plan, DeSantis says
                  Feb. 24• Health
                  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference Wednesday in Hernando County, where he again defended prioritizing seniors for vaccines and did not share specifics on who will get shots next.
                9. Who gets vaccinated next? Florida’s the only state that doesn’t tell you.
                  Feb. 23• Health
                  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is silhouetted as he speaks to the media while residents line up at a coronavirus vaccination site in the Lakewood Ranch area earlier this month.
                10. Florida teachers, police could get coronavirus vaccines soon, DeSantis says
                  Feb. 23• Health
                  A teacher works with students at Apollo Beach Elementary in Hillsborough County while everyone wears masks. Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that teachers and law enforcement officers who are 50 and older will get access to vaccines next, but he did not go into detail.
                11. Florida will ‘surge more doses’ of coronavirus vaccine to Pinellas
                  Feb. 18• Health
                  Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks the media at a coronavirus vaccination site at Lakewood Ranch Wednesday. He appeared Thursday in Pinellas Park, announcing that Pinellas County will get 8,000 additional doses to up the percentage of seniors vaccinated.
                12. Bayfront Health names new chief medical, nursing officers
                  Feb. 15• Health
                  Lorraine Parker, left, is the new chief nursing officer for Bayfront Health St. Petersburg. Dr. Trina Espinola is the hospital's new chief medical officer.
                13. Expect a coronavirus spike from Tampa’s Super Bowl events, experts say
                  Feb. 12• Health
                  Fans watch as boats carrying Tampa Bay Buccaneers players and family members pass by during Wednesday's celebration of the team's victory in Super Bowl 55. Infectious disease experts worried the parade and other Super Bowl events will result in a spike in coronavirus cases.
                14. Was Tampa’s Super Bowl celebration safe? Jane Castor thinks so
                  Feb. 11• Tampa
                  Tampa Mayor Jane Castor waves a flag during the Buccaneers? Super Bowl Championship boat parade in downtown on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. 



                15. Florida’s home health care workers call on DeSantis for vaccines
                  Feb. 10• Health
                  Florida's rules are unclear on whether home health care workers are eligible to be vaccinated, the Home Care Association of Florida says. The group is pushing Gov. Ron DeSantis for an “explicit designation” of in-home providers as front-line health care workers.
                16. ‘Seismic’ turnaround at Bayfront Health has St. Pete officials beaming
                  Feb. 5• Health
                  This rendering shows a new facade being planned for Bayfront Health St. Petersburg. Changes to the hospital will take place over the next month, officials said.
                17. Cómo un sistema hospitalario de Florida está vacunando a los “extremadamente vulnerables”
                  Feb. 5• CENTRO
                  Jeringas con moderna durante una vacunación.
                18. How one Florida hospital system is vaccinating the ‘extremely vulnerable’
                  Feb. 4• Health
                  These syringes were loaded in January with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Pittsburgh, the same vaccine Florida is sending to 27 hospitals for distribution to extremely vulnerable patients.
                19. Confusion continues with Florida’s new vaccine website
                  Feb. 4• Health
                  Debbie Vanderkuip, center, and her husband, Rick Vanderkuip, right, check in with nurse Trina Owens at the Clearwater Health Department early last month. The seniors, from Niagra Falls, Canada, were seeking appointments to receive a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Pinellas County health department's distribution plan. So far, the department has elected not to be part of a statewide online registration system launched at the end of January.
                20. Vaccine doses for ‘extremely vulnerable’ will go to 27 Florida hospitals
                  Feb. 2• Health
                  Twenty-seven Florida hospitals, including four in Tampa Bay, will get 28,500 doses of the Moderna vaccine for people deemed extremely vulnerable to COVID-19.
                21. Florida’s coronavirus vaccine rollout reveals racial divide in Tampa Bay
                  Jan. 30• Health
                  Pete Zachmann, 72, of Wimauma, receives a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination by OnSite Safe Nurse Kedra Rance at the Strawberry Festival Fairgrounds, one of the vaccination distribution sites in Hillsborough County, in Plant City on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. 



                22. Pinellas will take new coronavirus vaccine appointments Friday
                  Jan. 28• Health
                  Nurse Toni Martin, left, administers the first of two shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to James Perivolaris, 77, of Palm Harbor, at the Clearwater Health Department earlier this month.
                23. Tampa Bay has 12 known cases of the more contagious coronavirus variant
                  Jan. 28• Health
                  This 2020 electron microscope image from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows virus particles which cause COVID-19 emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. Viruses are constantly mutating, with coronavirus variants circulating around the globe. Florida officials are monitoring the spread of a more contagious variant that was first seen in the United Kingdom and soon could become the dominant strain of the virus in the U.S.
                24. Concerned about coronavirus vaccine side effects? Here’s what to expect.
                  Jan. 27• Health
                  Dr. Carlos Martinez, left, explains the vaccination process to a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in the Bronx borough of New York before administering a first dose Tuesday.