ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Gov. “When Florida state data revealed people of color were vaccinated at a much lower rate than their wealthier neighbors, ‘60 Minutes’ reported the facts surrounding the vaccine’s rollout, which is controlled by the governor,” the CBS statement said. Our story Sunday night speaks for itself.” On Monday, Palm Beach County Mayor Dave Kerner, a Democrat, …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Florida’s governor is facing vaccine discrimination concerns after announcing that supermarket chain Publix will become Palm Beach County’s exclusive distributor of the COVID-19 vaccine, a decision that local leaders say will put some Black and rural communities at a dangerous disadvantage. “We’re hoping that the governor reconsiders,” Belle Glade Mayor Steve Wilson, whose city is a roughly …
CNN — The family of a Publix employee who died from coronavirus complications has filed a wrongful death lawsuit that claims the grocery store chain refused to allow employees to wear masks at the time he became sick. Gutierrez was working at a Miami Beach location when the other employee started exhibiting symptoms of Covid-19 on March 27-28, the lawsuit …