COVID-19: 250 Ocala seniors vaccinated Wednesday at local church
Corine Shelton, 85, has been quarantining in her Ocala home for nearly a year, only leaving to get a few groceries every so often. Even then, if too many people were inside the store, she would wait patiently outside until she felt comfortable enough to go inside.
As a member of Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Shelton heard about appointments for COVID-19 vaccinations to be administered through a partnership between the Heart of Florida Health Center and the local health department.
Shelton immediately asked for an appointment. On a chilly Wednesday morning at New St. John Missionary Baptist Church, located in west Ocala just off Silver Springs Boulevard, Shelton was one of 250 residents to receive the first of two shots of the Pfizer vaccine.
Coronavirus in Mississippi: 2,680 new cases, 70 deaths reported Saturday Gabriela Szymanowska and Brian Broom, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 2,680 new cases of the coronavirus and 70 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday.
Since the virus hit the state in March, a total of 250,869 cases and 5,481 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported.
The department reported Friday, the latest numbers available, there were 1,332 current hospitalizations of confirmed cases, with 340 in intensive care and 212 on ventilators.
According to a New York Times database on Saturday, at least 3,744 new coronavirus deaths and 240,925 new cases were reported in the U.S. Over the past week, there has been an average of 231,675 cases per day, an increase of 19% from the average two weeks earlier.