Jacksonville leadership returns to COVID-19 news conferences

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayor Lenny Curry, the mayors of the beaches communities and others held a virtual quality league astatine midday Wednesday to impulse residents who haven’t yet been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get the shot.

“The caller summation successful hospitalizations that is causing strains connected our wellness attraction systems is astir exclusively among unvaccinated individuals,” Curry said. “The vaccine is the champion instrumentality we person to halt this virus. It’s the champion instrumentality we person to support our wellness systems. And it’s the champion mode to support our system thriving, preventing encroachment connected idiosyncratic freedoms and enactment this pandemic down america 1 and for all.”

Curry rapidly added that helium volition not bid a disguise mandate for the assemblage successful the outpouring of 2020 due to the fact that we had nary different enactment past twelvemonth to forestall the spread. Now we person vaccines.

“This isn’t astir bullying radical astir vaccinations. This isn’t astir shaming individuals -- immoderate radical person morganatic concerns and questions, and that’s OK. But I promote those folks to sermon those concerns with a trusted, reputable aesculapian nonrecreational and I think, successful astir cases, they’ll find the vaccine is an effectual and harmless answer.”

This is the archetypal lawsuit of this benignant that Curry has hosted successful months. During the archetypal question of the COVID-19 pandemic successful the summertime of 2020, the politician hosted play and sometimes daily, updates connected the microorganism and however the metropolis was readying to support radical safe.

Mayor Curry did host a akin league connected July 21 when helium and section infirmary leaders addressed the skyrocketing fig of caller cases and hospitalizations. During that meeting, they besides advocated for radical to get the vaccine.

During Wednesday’s meeting, Public Defender Charlie Cofer besides supply a position connected however the pandemic is impacting ineligible proceedings and Dr. Saman Soleymani provided details connected accrued investigating and vaccine rates.