(CNN) A Manatee County, Florida, commissioner broke protocol for equitable vaccine distribution, which she had previously voted in favor of, when planning a vaccine drive initiated by Gov. In response to criticism that county officials had only permitted residents from the two richest zip codes in the county to get vaccinated at the event, Baugh further admitted that she picked the zip codes herself. A news release on the Manatee County website says it aimed to vaccinate 3,000 people over three days. Manatee County commissioners voted on January 6 to create a system that would distribute vaccines through a system that a source in the Manatee County government said was engineered to be more equitable. Census records show those two zip codes in Manatee County have the highest median household income and are overwhelmingly White.

Source: CNN February 18, 2021 22:30 UTC