Florida pastor pushes for inoculation after losing 8 congregants to COVID-19

"I believe coming to a trusted place, a safe place ... I think you get a better chance of more people being vaccinated."

Pastor George Davis said it's always difficult to go through the grieving process with families in his church. But when eight people died in a two-week span from COVID-19, it presented an unprecedented challenge. He told ABC News' Linsey Davis four of his late congregants were under the age of 35, and at least seven of those who died were unvaccinated. "The young man who was 24, I've known him since he was a toddler," Davis said. "Each of them were otherwise healthy. There's no reason to expect they would've been passing away. None of them had cancer or any other disease that would've taken them out any time soon, that we were aware of. So it's very frustrating." It's been even more frustrating, he said, considering, "I've done everything I can to promote vaccination." Davis, his wife and three kids were all vaccinated when it was made available to them, he said.