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2:27 am UTC May. 16, 2021
Debbie Wertz, DeSoto County Chamber of Commerce
Reliable internet access used to be more of a want than a need. But especially after COVID-19, we realize that it is a lifeline.
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Just a few weeks after the first COVID-19 case was discovered in Florida – early in March, 2020 – the state began to realize that reliable access to the digital world has become a necessity. Education, health care, employment, social services and many other aspects of our lives moved online – all things we suddenly needed more than ever.
But in order to have effective digital access, people need three equally important tools: a reliable broadband connection, the right technology and digital literacy.
Biden boasts about equitable senior vaccination rate by race without data to back it up
During May 3 remarks on the American Families Plan, President Joe Biden boasted that there was not much disparity in the vaccination rates for white Americans and Americans of color who are at least 65. And what s happening now is all the talk about how people were not going to get shots, they were not going to be involved look at what that was we were told that was most likely to be among people over 65 years of age, said Biden. But now people over 65 years of age, over 80%, have now been vaccinated, and 66% fully vaccinated. And there s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.
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