Miami-Dade mayor has COVID again. A high-profile reminder the virus remains

Miami-Dade County’s mayor has COVID-19 again, a reminder that virus remains more than a year after the county ended its last pandemic precautions.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, 67, contracted COVID at the start of her term in 2020, again in 2022, and has it a third time this week, spokesperson Natalia Jaramillo confirmed Thursday night. Jaramillo said Levine Cava has cold-like symptoms but isn’t seriously ill.

“She feels sick, with cough and congestion,” Jaramillo said, “but well enough to work virtually.”

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Levine Cava lifted Miami-Dade’s final COVID precautions, including mask mandates at county buildings, at the start of 2022, shortly after she contracted the virus for the second time in February 2022.

The latest county COVID report shows about 10% of the tests for the virus are coming back positive, about half where it was at the start of 2023.