Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis denied that he or the state had anything to do with providing COVID vaccines to a wealthy, gated Florida Keys community January ahead of other state residents.
“I’m not worried about your income bracket, I’m worried about your age bracket,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Crystal River on Thursday when asked about a story in the Miami Herald that revealed almost all the senior residents of the Ocean Reef enclave in Key Largo got inoculated by Jan. 22.
The Herald report revealed that the management of Ocean Reef Club told residents that day in an email that more than 1,200 seniors had been vaccinated there over the previous two weeks. In all, 17 Ocean Reef residents had donated $5,000 each to the governor’s political committee through December 2020, the Herald reported using state records.
