Jacksonville church hosts vaccine clinic after 6 members died from COVID-19 in 10 days

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Impact Church connected Sunday hosted a escaped nationalist COVID-19 vaccination session arsenic coronavirus cases surge locally.

From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., radical ages 12 and older tin person the Pfizer vaccine nary assignment indispensable wrong the religion connected Arlington Expressway.

The walk-in session is portion of the church’s inaugural to propulsion the assemblage to get vaccinated.

“We judge that the doctors were created by the Lord, and He gave them the accusation to make this vaccine. That’s his reply to this horrible pandemic,” said Impact Church Pastor Joseph Cooper.

Cooper said helium hopes to get arsenic galore radical vaccinated arsenic imaginable aft six religion members died from COVID-19 successful 10 days.

”We had six members of our religion walk away. All were steadfast each had nary pre-existing conditions. Four of them were nether the property of 30 and they were each unvaccinated,” Cooper said.

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Sunday’s vaccination session astatine Impact Church was the 2nd that the religion has hosted since March. According to Cooper, astatine slightest 100 radical were vaccinated astatine the lawsuit earlier 11 a.m.

Jaylen Gabb is simply a ninth-grader who received the vaccine connected Sunday for the archetypal time.

“I didn’t privation to get vaccinated due to the fact that it wasn’t a menace to maine successful the beginning,” Gabb said.

He went to the session alongside his father, Jason Hopkins, who was already vaccinated but wanted his lad to get the changeable earlier starting a caller schoolhouse year.

“I wanted to person a plan. I wanted to bash thing to support him arsenic overmuch arsenic I could,” Hopkins said.

As of now, Impact Church isn’t readying to big immoderate further vaccination clinics.

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