Abe Aboraya
Health News Florida reporter Abe Aboraya works for WMFE in Orlando. He started writing for newspapers in high school. After graduating from the University of Central Florida in 2007, he spent a year traveling and working as a freelance reporter for the Seattle Times and the Seattle Weekly, and working for local news websites in the San Francisco Bay area. Most recently Abe worked as a reporter for the Orlando Business Journal. He comes from a family of health care workers.
Contact Abe at 407-273-2300 x 183 on Twitter @AbeAboraya or by email.
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High prices in one market is driving demand in others. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on July 29, 2021.
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Orlando is the top tourist destination in the U.S., attracting 35 million visitors in 2020. That’s during a pandemic. This story is about an unofficial diagnosis some visitors will get while on vacation. -
After a 26% increase in opioid overdoses in Florida over the previous year,. Project Opioid founder Andrae Bailey says the pandemic accelerated the real problem: the synthetic opioid fentanyl flooding the markets. -
Miya Marcano was killed earlier this year by a maintenance worker who later killed himself got into her apartment using a master key fob, police said. -
Hospitals are using three to four times as much oxygen as they were before the pandemic. Also, a lack of delivery drivers is adding to the problem. -
Comic books and other collectibles have doubled in price since the pandemic started. A new generation has started collecting and high prices in one market is driving demand in others.
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Pulse survivor Orlando Torres reconnects with Timothy Stanley, the former Orlando SWAT officer who saved him. -
She's expected to announce soon that she'll seek Marco Rubio's Senate seat. -
It's a blend between a manta Ray and shark chimera. -
In this interview, Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, explains provisions that make it easier for Floridians who lost their job to keep health insurance during the pandemic.
