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5:30 p.m. | Northeast Florida adds 1,172 new coronavirus cases
Northeast Florida saw another big one-day spike in coronavirus cases on Thursday, with the Florida Department of Health reporting 1,172 new cases in the six-county area.
The jump in cases follows Wednesday s record-setting 1,233 new cases reported in 24 hours, which was the biggest single-day jump since the state began reporting the data. The region, especially Duval County, has seen a growing outbreak in the last two weeks.
St. Johns County accounted for the region s only additional death in the state s daily report. | Read more
4 p.m. | Staff vaccinations for COVID-19 begin at Ascension St Vincent s Jacksonville hospitals
Coronavirus updates: Pence to get vaccine Friday, Biden possibly next week; second home test gets OK; fewer births because of pandemic Jorge L. Ortiz and Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
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Black LGBT+ lives land in the intersection of racism and homophobia. (Getty/Hollie Adams)
The COVID-19 pandemic is placing huge strain on Black queer households as decades of discrimination compound economic insecurity, a worrying new study has found.
The report released by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) identifies American communities that are bearing the brunt of COVID-19, noting that LGBT+ households were disproportionately challenged in work, school, childrearing, healthcare, financial insecurity and social isolation.
In particular Black and Latinx LGBT+ people are facing significantly higher levels of financial insecurity, with a shocking 95 per cent of queer Black households and 70 per cent of queer Latinx households experiencing at least one serious financial problem since the pandemic began.
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►Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen Pence, will receive the new COVID-19 vaccine at the White House on Friday, in a public inoculation aimed at building trust among Americans about its safety. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to get the shot next week. There s no word yet on whether President Donald Trump will get it.
I lost everything : LGBTQ people are bearing a bigger brunt of the pandemic, report shows Susan Miller, USA TODAY
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The world for Atlas Marshall, a popular Portland, Oregon, drag performer and karaoke company owner, imploded last spring.
Marci Perry, a Denver personal trainer with a beloved shoeshine business, felt her livelihood slip “right through my fingers” in March.
COVID-19 has crushed a lot of souls in its lethal stampede across the nation. But for members of the LGBTQ community such as Marshall and Perry, the pandemic has been particularly pernicious, exposing vulnerabilities that often bubble beneath the surface.