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Hospitals are grappling with a new surge in COVID cases. Florida is grappling with a wave of COVID-19 infections that is sending more young people to hospitals, forcing some facilities to limit visitors and reschedule elective surgeries and prompting elected officials to plead for people to get vaccinated. During a news conference with top Northeast Florida hospital officials, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry made a plea for COVID-19 vaccinations, saying 800 people, most of them unvaccinated, we...

Mobile faith-based vaccination pilot program launches in Tallahassee WCJB Staff © Provided by Gainesville WCJB-TV A new pilot program aimed at increasing vaccination rates of Black Floridians launched in the State’s capital city Monday. To keep up with the latest local news subscribe to our   and receive news straight to your email every morning. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CAP NEWS/WCJB) - A new pilot program aimed at increasing vaccination rates of Black Floridians launched in t...

COVID survivors share experiences to fight vaccine hesitancy The COVID-19 Education and Engagement Taskforce hopes to convince people to get vaccinated by showing them stories of people who have had to fight the virus from a hospital bed. and last updated 2021-04-21 18:48:38-04 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — The COVID-19 Education and Engagement Taskforce hopes to convince people to get vaccinated by showing them stories of people who have had to fight the virus from a hospital bed. "The com...

Bethel Missionary Baptist Church holds memorial service for COVID-19 victims and last updated 2021-04-12 01:29:36-04 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — 310 crosses are placed on the front lawn of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee. Each cross represents a person in Leon County who died from COVID-19. Sunday marked one year since the first COVID-19 related death in the county. The church held a memorial service for those who didnt get the chance to get vaccinated. Linda Edwards has rec...

County Commission Chair Rick Minor and  Mayor John Dailey Your Turn A full year into the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone’s lives have been transformed into a hard new normal. This pandemic – the worst public health crisis in a century – will be with us for a while, even as we all seek to do our jobs, go to school, enjoy ourselves and carefully gather, travel and live our lives.   The virus has not spared the Big Bend. COVID-19 forced many businesses to close, threw many pe...

Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna also is scheduled to attend.  The news conference will be held virtually at 10 a.m. via Zoom. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AQR1aJXARFmg971cKUsX-w.  Several members of this new initiative participate in a weekly Friday live-streamed conversation on the status of COVID-19 locally, hosted by Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. To pre-register for that event, visit TMH. org.  Local COVID-19 update Leon County has had ...

Starting March 3, Gateway mall in Northwest Jacksonville will be the site of a FEMA-run COVID-19 vaccination site, one of four in Florida.

SHARE TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida group of pastors, lawyers, physicians, educators, lawmakers, and legislators aims to ensure that people of color get vaccinated, and it’s involving churches — and maybe even the White House — to see that it happens. What You Need To Know Task force eyes 156 Florida sites including churches as vaccination centers Task force goal: “to make sure that all people of color are vaccinated” Data from Florida: Blacks are 2½ times less likely than whites...

First Baptist Church Warrington — Pensacola Greater Little Rock Baptist Church — Pensacola Marie Young Community Center — Pensacola Movement for Change/Woodland Community Center — Pensacola Bagdad Recreational Facility — Milton T.R. Jackson Elementary — Milton The task force has sent a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis looking to partner with the state on vaccinations, but so far the governor’s office has not responded. Of the 1,894,209 people that have received the COVID vaccine in Fl...

Faith, community leaders propose 80+ vaccination sites in marginalized communities across Florida They say Publix grocery stores, which are providing the vaccine, are not located in enough of the minority communities. Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 9:59 AM EST February 3, 2021 Updated: 7:20 AM EST February 4, 2021 The Statewide Vaccination Community Engagement and Education Task Force conducted simultaneous news conferences all over the...