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Vanessa Arroyo, a Tampa General Hospital front-line nurse, gets her Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine on Dec.14. Florida Hospital Association President Mary Mayhew and Florida Medical Association CEO Tim Stapleton encouraged health workers to share their experience receiving the coronavirus vaccine with others. Two of Florida’s largest medical associations sent an open letter to front-line health care workers Tuesday lauding them for their service during the COVID-19 pandemic and urging them to get vaccinated against the virus that causes the deadly respiratory disease. “Health care professionals like you have tirelessly served our state over the past nine months responding to an unprecedented public health crisis and coming together in extraordinary ways to help your communities,” the letter from the Florida Hospital Association and the Florida Medical Association said. “Thank you for your sacrifice, compassion and selflessness throughout the COVID-19 pandem ....
Florida medical groups urge workers to get vaccinated News Service of Florida Staff Published: Tags: File photo (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Two of Florida’s largest medical associations sent an open letter to front-line health care workers Tuesday lauding them for their service during the COVID-19 pandemic and urging them to get vaccinated against the virus that causes the potentially deadly respiratory disease. “Health care professionals like you have tirelessly served our state over the past nine months responding to an unprecedented public health crisis and coming together in extraordinary ways to help your communities,” the letter from the Florida Hospital Association and the Florida Medical Association said. “Thank you for your sacrifice, compassion and selflessness throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. You all are true healthcare heroes.” ....
dominating headlines, the national outrage surrounding the shooting death of trayvon martin, the unarmed teen in florida. so far two officials have stepped aside to try to quell that rage and now president obama and the gop presidential candidates are weighing in. fox s phil keating has the story. reporter: following days of urging by civil rights leaders, president obama today addressed the shooting death of trayvon martin, the unarmed miami high schooler allegedly killed by george zimmerman, a suspicious neighborhood watch coordinator in an orlando suburb. if i had a son, he d look like trayvon and, you know, i think they are right to expect that all of us as americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened. reporter: zimmerman claimed self-defense under a special florida law and has not been charged. the parents of martin were joined by an estimated 5,000 people last night at a ....
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best news on the jobs front in years. today is an encouraging day. we learned the economy actually produced a substantial mum of jobs instead of losing a substantial number of jobs. we are beginning to turn the corner. reporter: 162 thousand how new u.s. jobs in march, highest jobs creation rate in three years. after the loss of more than 8 million jobs since 07. i think that this will mark the end of the job losses. reporter: the president took credit visiting a high-tech battery parks plan that hired more workers using funds from the stimulus plan. tough measures we took, measures that were necessary even though sometimes they were unpopular, have broken the slide. reporter: more americans went out looking for jobs so that the rate of unemployment remains 9. 7%. this was a jobs fair in savannah. millions of americans are still looking and republicans charge democrats set back the recovery with their win on health care. and pushed for financial reform. f ....