Cliff Lathrop can’t wait to hug his daughter again.
The 67-year-old River Club resident has been especially careful during the COVID-19 pandemic. His 70-year-old wife, Catherine Lathrop, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a condition that obstructs airflow from the lungs.
“I’m constantly worried,” Cliff Lathrop said. “If she gets it, with a lung disease, it would be bad.”
After they receive their second vaccinations at Premier Sports Campus, Cliff and Catherine Lathrop will visit with their daughter, Sarah Lathrop, who lives in Nashville. Aside from a brief Hello while she was visiting nearby Anna Maria Island to take care of her cousin’s pets, it’s been a year and a half since the Lathrops have visited with her. They usually get together about twice per year.
The Manatee County Sheriff s Office is investigating Commissioner Vanessa Baugh, according to Public Information Officer Randy Warren.
Warren said the sheriff s office received a two dozen-page complaint Monday from Sarasota paralegal consultant Michael Barfield, who is also the board president for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida. Once we got that, we started looking through it, Warren said. That s the process that we re in right now. We want to examine what the claims are to see if there were any laws that were broken.
The investigation is part of the continuing fallout from Baugh s role in organizing a pop-up vaccination site last week at Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch, which was requested by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Manatee County s Vaccination Standby Pool was used to select 3,200 residents who live in the 34202 and 34211 ZIP Codes.
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Another 5,100 seniors will receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Manatee County on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Tom Bennett Park in East County.
Manatee County 311 callers will begin scheduling appointments with seniors who are registered in the county s Vaccination Standby Pool on Monday, according to a county press release. Manatee County operators will be calling randomly selected seniors from the phone number 742-4300 to book appointments.
If a selected recipient misses the first call, the county will call once more at a later time. If the county calls twice with no response, that would-be recipient s name will be placed back in the standby pool. The county asked that people don t call 311 to ask if they ve been selected.