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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 Taskforce says it has established a preliminary list of 156 churches and community centers that want to help administer COVID-19 vaccinations in underserved communities, said Rev. R.B. Holmes, the head of the task force and the pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee.