Elizabeth Djinis
Correction: The vaccine event was held in north Sarasota. An earlier version of this story's headline incorrectly said it was held in Newtown.
The Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County hosted its first pop-up vaccine clinic in north Sarasota Sunday geared toward vaccinating communities of color.
Roughly 400 Black and Hispanic people were vaccinated Sunday at Light of the World International Church near Myrtle Street and U.S. 41. The event was spurred in part by community activists who called for better vaccine access for some of the most vulnerable members of the community. Rather than going through the county’s Everbridge registration system, a group of community leaders compiled a list of local people of color who were over 65 or frontline health care providers who had not been vaccinated. Those people were called and given appointments for Sunday.