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COVID: Jacksonville doctors, health specialists urge masks in schools


As the 2021-22 school year quickly approaches, community members in Jacksonville are pleading with Duval Schools to put a mask mandate in place to protect students against COVID-19. 
Now, as Duval County deals with a new surge of COVID-19 cases and high hospitalization rates, health experts are joining the conversation. 
On Monday evening, a group of several local doctors and health specialists gathered on Zoom for a public webinar encouraging masking up in schools. 
The school board and superintendent are in a very difficult situation and perhaps an untenable situation,  Dr. Jeff Goldhagen a pediatric doctor and health professor, said.  But there’s a right thing to do. Our other elected officials need to take that stand. ....

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Black community shows skepticism with COVID-19 vaccine, doctors assure community it's safe


Of the 83,000 people that have been vaccinated in Duval County, only 11% were Black.
Author: Briana Ray-Turner
Updated: 9:52 PM EST February 2, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. As of Tuesday, Duval County has vaccinated over 83,000 people. Of that number, only about 11% were Black. 
“The majority of the vaccines were given in white neighborhoods not in the Black neighborhoods, and that’s why there’s a difference, said Rose Wilson of Duval County.
However, some are also concerned about the safety of the vaccine, especially with the speed that pharmaceutical companies produced the vaccine. However, doctors in minority communities are hoping that residents will trust them that the vaccine is indeed safe. ....

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NAACP criticizes 'failure' of Jacksonville's COVID-19 vaccination program


NAACP criticizes failure of Jacksonville s COVID-19 vaccination program
We have not seen any real plan presented to the public on how we re gonna move forward, said Dr. Rogers Cain.
Author: First Coast News Staff, David Jones, Briana Ray-Turner
Published: 11:05 AM EST January 26, 2021
Updated: 9:01 PM EST January 26, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla On Monday, the Jacksonville branch of the NAACP wrote a letter to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry, addressing issues of racial disparity in how the state and local government have handled vaccine distribution.
Neither the State of Florida nor the City of Jacksonville have revealed a comprehensive plan or the operational capacity to implement the mass vaccination campaign required to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of people in our community, the organization wrote. ....

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