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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 51 more residents test positive for COVID-19, and one more resident has died because of the virus, t...

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 to get vaccinated The Statewide Coronavirus Vaccination Community Education and Engagement Taskforc...

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 Florida as of February 4, 1,208,993 are white, and 65,116 are black, according to the Florida Departme...

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 state of Florida on Wednesday.  Religious and community leaders announced 80+ proposed vaccination...