With COVID rising, what are you doing to stay healthy in South Florida? Take our poll

With COVID-19 cases rising in South Florida again, are you changing your summer plans?

Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties are considered to be high risk for COVID-19 transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC recommends people in high-risk counties wear masks in indoor public spaces.

But will you?

We want to know: Are you wearing masks again or taking other COVID safety precautions? Maybe you’re avoiding crowded areas, dining outdoors more? Planning to get a booster? Maybe you’re rethinking your travel plans?

Or perhaps you’re over all of it and are living life like in pre-pandemic times.

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Whatever your plan is, take our survey to let us know. This isn’t scientific — it’s just to share what you think.

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This story was originally published June 9, 2022 at 8:13 AM.

Michelle Marchante

Miami Herald

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Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription