Palm Beach County says it won t follow Gov DeSantis order to fly flags at half-staff to honor Rush Limbaugh | Nation/World gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay announced that she will refuse Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' (R) order to lower flags in the conservative radio host's home county.
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A death sentence : Activists call on Florida governor to prioritize vaccines for farmworkers Rima Abdelkader and Sara Mhaidli and Carmen Sesin and Adrianne Morales
On a farm in Plant City, Florida, María Alvarez and her husband have been working throughout the pandemic, picking what’s in season and planting for the next.
Alvarez, 34, is worried about getting infected with Covid-19 while she works with dozens of other migrant workers during shifts that last up to 12 hours.
“When we arrive to pick up the boxes, we’re very close to each other, she said. Then we head back to go picking and we’re still close. There’s no social distancing.
Florida community enrolling people for coronavirus vaccines one conversation at a time
Lori Rozsa, The Washington Post
Feb. 21, 2021
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BELLE GLADE, Fla. - On a bright and sunny winter day, Tammy Jackson-Moore is going door-to-door in this town, offering appointments to receive a coronavirus shot.
In a state where getting a slot for the vaccine amounts to snagging a golden ticket, Jackson-Moore is offering that ticket to anybody she can find older than 65.
The need is acute in Florida: The state has the greatest prevalence of a fast-spreading virus variant first identified in the United Kingdom. The emergence of variants globally has added to the urgency of getting as many people as possible a shield of protection against the pathogen.