Black ministers are working to bridge worship and service to address COVID-19 disparities in their communities salarshani@businessinsider.com (Sarah Al-Arshani) © Octavio Jones/Getty Images Bible-Based Fellowship Church partnered with the Pasco County Health Department, and Army National Guard to assist residents who are 65 and older to administer the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on February 13, 2021 in Tampa, Florida. Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Black clergy are working to address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on their communities.
Some are hosting vaccination clinics at their churches to help expand access.
So far, only 7% of those who have been vaccinated are Black, compared to 65% who are white.
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Vaccine doses for Black Florida communities given to white residents
In Palm Beach County, where Black people make up 18% of the population, only 4.1% had been vaccinated as of March 1.
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Vaccine drives hosted for Black communities in rural Florida are instead being visited by wealthy, white residents who are then given the immunization against COVID-19 intended for locals.
According to
STAT News,the farming communities of Pahokee, Fla. a city in Palm Beach County, have a population of around 60% Black people and one-third of its residents are Hispanic. However, many of the coronavirus vaccinations sent for residents have gone to white people. The report found that white residents of communities such as Stuart, West Palm Beach, and Miami, traveled to the rural area for their dose of the vaccine.
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Corky Siemaszko
March 1, 2021, 3:24 PM
Not long after Florida began its rollout of the coronavirus vaccines, Black leaders and others began raising alarms that the first doses were finding their way into the arms of mostly white senior citizens who supported Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, while their hard-hit communities were left in the cold.
Now some numbers appear to support those suspicions.
Of the 34 states that shared vaccination data by race and ethnicity, Florida ranks near the bottom in the rate at which Black residents have been inoculated even as the community has suffered a disproportionate share of Covid-19 deaths, concluded Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida.
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