2/12/2021
Florida Department of Health Provides Week Nine Updates on Florida’s Vaccination Efforts Under Governor DeSantis’ Leadership
Florida Continues to Add COVID-19 Vaccination Sites Statewide through Strategic Partnerships~
Today, the Florida Department of Health issued an update on the progress of the state s vaccination efforts, as well as its weekly COVID-19 update. The State of Florida is in its ninth week of vaccine distribution and is continuing to increase vaccine access statewide.
Under Governor DeSantis’ leadership, the state continues to develop proactive strategies to increase vaccine access to Florida’s seniors.
This week, Governor DeSantis announced the expansion of COVID-19 vaccination sites across the state of Florida through the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program. The Federal Retail Pharmacy Program sites began offering COVID-19 vaccines Friday, February 12 across 52 counties.
Savannah pastors seek innovative ways to foster multicultural worship and ministry
Rachel Cleveland, For Beacon Magazine
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8:03 am UTC Feb. 10, 2021
Beacon Magazine and the Savannah Morning News explore the effects of race and class discrimination in Savannah institutions and offer solutions to overcoming the obstacles that divide us.
When asked about the moral obligation of integration, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously responded, “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation…that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours…in Christian America.”
More than half a century later, Christian America strives in fits and starts to fulfill Dr. King’s call to racial integration within the church; to bring people of many races and cultures together within one congregation.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced that 35 community-based pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites are coming online this week, and six are in the Hudson Valley.
Cuomo says vaccination sites being established this week in the Hudson Valley are at churches and cultural centers Thursday, Friday and/or Saturday. The sites are, in Mount Vernon, Grace Baptist Church, Thursday and Friday; in Yonkers, at the Nodine Hill Community Center Thursday through Saturday; at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center Saturday; in Peekskill, at the Kiley Youth Center on Saturday; in Poughkeepsie, at Beulah Baptist Church on Friday; and in Spring Valley, at the MLK Center, Friday and Saturday. All are by appointment only. The sites will be re-established in three weeks to administer second doses of the vaccine.
Cuomo: 35 new pop-up COVID vaccination sites coming to NY this week
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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Confusion over NY vaccine expansion
Some county officials around New York are urging Governor Cuomo to give them more guidance on his decision to extend vaccine eligibility, after Cuomo announced that restaurant workers and even Uber drivers could be added to the list of people who can get the shot.
NEW YORK - Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced that 35 new community-based pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites will be coming online this week at churches, community centers, public housing complexes, and cultural centers.
The sites are expected to vaccinate over 25,000 people throughout the week, with more sites coming online every week.
New vaccination sites target minority communities across Hudson Valley
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 03, 2021, 10:33pm EST
New vaccination sites are popping up all across the Hudson Valley - from churches in Mount Vernon and Poughkeepsie to the MLK Center in Spring Valley.
Velma McKenzie-Orr says she battled coronavirus and has lived to tell the tale, and now on Thursday, she ll be able to rid her virus fears once and for all.
She will be one of 500 seniors in Mount Vernon expected to get the Pfizer COVID-19 over the next two days at a special pop-up clinic sponsored by the Grace Baptist Church and the Mount Vernon Neighborhood Health Center.