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Disparities Continue Over Who Is Getting COVID Vaccine in FL
FEMA will open four mass vaccination sites in Florida in Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami Dade College’s North Campus. Around each site, two mobile units will go to nearby underserved areas with 500 vaccines a day. by Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun Sentinel / February 22, 2021 Ketley Joachim sits with her mom, Suzanne Noel, 97 from North Miami Beach after she received her vaccine during an interfaith COVID-19 vaccination drive at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center in Aventura Florida hosted in partnership with a mosque and Black churches on Thursday, February 4, 2021 TNS
Black Nurses Association continues mission of pioneer Mary Eliza Mahoney
“If Mary got her nursing degree then we can too. Since then, so many Black nurses have grown from the seed she planted.”
Credit: Wiley Price/St. Louis American
Dr. Leonora Muhammad in her north county office is the chapter president of the Black Nurses Association of Greater St. Louis Thu. Feb. 4, 2021. Author: Danielle Brown – The St. Louis American Published: 7:50 AM CST February 22, 2021 Updated: 7:50 AM CST February 22, 2021
Mary Eliza Mahoney’s name might not be well-known, but it should be especially to African American nurses. In 1879, she became the first Black person in the United States to earn a nursing degree.