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Jacksonville s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has failed to address the needs of Black and other people of color, many of whom are suspicious of the rapidly developed drug because of long-held mistrust of the health care system, according to local Black leaders.
In a recent letter to Mayor Lenny Curry, they asked that the number of vaccination and testing sites be expanded, ensuring that communities of color within the city are adequately covered. They also requested more vaccine-related education and a panel of public and community leaders to set local vaccination priorities, among other things.
We are confronting the most challenging public health emergency of our lifetime. … The COVID-19 pandemic continues to expose the failures of our public health systems, the pervasive structural and institutional racism that permeates our community and the inequities that confront us, according to the letter. ....

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