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Heat-related illnesses are soaring in Florida and Arizona as the planet warms and temperatures rise. Poor communities are bearing the brunt of sickening heat.
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Good Wednesday morning. While you were sleeping, Raphael Warnock was declared the winner in his bid to oust Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, nudging Democrats closer to the Senate majority. Jon Ossoff leads GOP Sen. David Perdue but the race hasn t been called yet.
The top official overseeing the distribution of Florida’s supply of COVID-19 vaccinations said Wednesday he wants to see the doses distributed much faster and acknowledged the rocky roll-out of county programs to inoculate seniors as well as a federal program to give the shots to nursing home residents.
With stakes never higher as the vaccine is considered the long-awaited salve to a deadly and still raging pandemic, public health officials in Florida scrambled to stand up vaccination sites for the general public this week just days after Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would depart from CDC guidelines and make the shots available to as many people age 65 and older as possible.