State task force works to get more Black and minority communities vaccinated
Local community leaders in Florida are making a statewide push to get encourage Black and minority groups to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
and last updated 2021-01-06 19:14:43-05
FLORIDA â Local community leaders in Florida are making a statewide push to get encourage Black and minority groups to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Florida Statewide COVID-19 Vaccine Community Engagement Task Force is planning to work with Go. Ron DeSantis to create accessibility of the vaccine in under-served communities.
Dr. RB Holmes, Task Force Chair and Organizer Pastor at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church and President of Tallahassee Chapter of the National Action Network said the group s plan is to get 60 to 70 percent of Black and minority communities vaccinated in the state of Florida.
TALLAHASSEE A coalition of Black community leaders said Wednesday they will work to ensure that upward of 70 percent of the state’s minority population gets vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19.
“My friends, this is a sense of urgency. We feel that these vaccines are a gift of life. We know unfortunately, and sadly, that people of color are dying disproportionately,” R.B. Holmes, the pastor of Tallahassee’s Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, said during a meeting of the Florida Statewide COVID-19 Vaccine Community Engagement Task Force. “Many of us, all of us, have buried, ministered and comforted thousands of people who have died from the virus. This is one battle that we cannot sit out.”
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