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Fallen power line kills Spring Hill girl, 17, as storm plows through Tampa Bay area
The power line set fire to the girlâs car, troopers said, and she stepped on it as she tried to escape through the passenger door.
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An unidentified patron walks from Rum Runners at the Key West Center Sunday in Palm Harbor. Strong winds ripped a portion of the roof off and downed power lines in the area Sunday. [ CHRIS URSO | Times ]
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A 17-year-old Spring Hill girl was electrocuted during Sundayâs violent thunderstorms as she tried to escape from her burning car after colliding with a fallen power line, troopers said.
Corky Siemaszko
March 1, 2021, 3:24 PM
Not long after Florida began its rollout of the coronavirus vaccines, Black leaders and others began raising alarms that the first doses were finding their way into the arms of mostly white senior citizens who supported Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, while their hard-hit communities were left in the cold.
Now some numbers appear to support those suspicions.
Of the 34 states that shared vaccination data by race and ethnicity, Florida ranks near the bottom in the rate at which Black residents have been inoculated even as the community has suffered a disproportionate share of Covid-19 deaths, concluded Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida.
Blacks/Hispanics die more of Covid, get vaccinated less msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.