Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Health data experts have modeled the coronavirus' impact on Florida, including which days the state will see the most deaths and when the its hospital resources will be overwhelmed, and predicted May 3 as the worst day for the state during the pandemic. |   | |
 With refrigerated morgue trucks parked on New York City's streets to collect the surging number of dead, public health officials projected that the coronavirus could ultimately kill more than 100,000 people across the U.S. Some states that have become hot spots warn they're running low on ventilators, while two cruise ships pleaded for Florida to allow them to dock to carry off the sick and dead. | | | |
 Federal and state officials have either asked or flat-out prohibited hospitals from performing elective procedures in order to preserve supplies, free up beds and protect providers from potential exposure to COVID-19, but many hospitals around the nation, including Orlando Health, are still performing the procedures. | | | |
 After nearly two weeks stuck in Peru under a coronavirus lockdown, an Orlando woman and her family are back in the United States, but they're still concerned about the Americans left behind. | | | |
 COVID-19 testing will be available to more people beginning Wednesday, according to state Emergency Management officials who received federal approval to expand the testing pool near the Orange County Convention Center. | | | |
 An Orlando-area surgeon is urging people to take seriously social distancing and other public health measures after a photo of his wife battling coronavirus went viral. | | | |
 Thousands of UCF students are stuck paying rent at off-campus apartments even after the university urged them to home. | | | |
 Florida's public schools will remain closed through May 1, with students continuing the "distance learning" that began Monday at least until then, state officials said Tuesday. | | | |
 To help make the public aware of rules surrounding the county mandate, which was announced last week by Orange mayor Jerry Demings, Orlando officers will be armed with flyers that lay out what residents can and cannot leave their homes for. | | | |
 Orlando woman sues U.S. Navy secretary after sexual harassment allegations against subordinate. | | | |
 Winter Park commissioners repealed the Orange Avenue Overlay District, a recently passed ordinance that would revamp part of the city's comprehensive plan and land development code standards. | | | |
 Nearly every day, Michelle Dettlaff sits outside the glass door of an Altamonte Springs assisted living facility to talk to her 81-year-old mother on the other side. It's as close as they're allowed to be. Since March 15, when state officials banned nearly all visitors from entering long-term care facilities to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Florida families have struggled to monitor the wellbeing of their loved ones and let them know they're not forgotten. | | | |
 The pastor of a Tampa mega church released a statement following his arrest Monday afternoon for encouraging hundreds to attend two Sunday services amid a "safer-at-home" order to combat the spread of coronavirus. | | | |
 Disney won a lawsuit against DisGear, an online store that sells T-shirts with Cinderella Castle and Darth Vader on them. Now, DisGear must give up its website and merchandise. | | | |
 A New York mall operator just bought the struggling Seminole Towne Center in Sanford and plans to revitalize it by bringing in new retailers to fill the empty shells left by shuttered department stores, according to a report in GrowthSpotter. | | | |
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