Florida continues push to vaccinate adults throughout the state
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Updated: 10:40 PM EDT Apr 6, 2021
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Updated: 10:40 PM EDT Apr 6, 2021
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FINE-TUNING ITS OWN APPROACH. SANIKA: TOMORROW, GRACE MEDICAL HOME BECOMES ONE OF THREE NEW MOBILE VACCINATION SITES IN THE ORLANDO AREA AS LOCAL EFFORTS MIRROR FEDERAL ONES TO RAMP UP COVID-19 VACCINES. PRESIDENT BIDEN: WE’RE GETTING MORE AND MORE DATA ON JUST HOW EFFECTIVE THE VACCINES ARE. SANIKA: ON TUESDAY, THE WHITE HOUSE ONCE AGAIN MOVING UP THEIR TARGET OF WHEN ALL ADULT AMERICANS SHOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE VACCINE. WHILE APRIL 19 IS THE NEW NATIONWIDE GOAL, FLORIDA IS TWO WEEKS AHEAD, HAVING OPENED ITS ELIGIBILITY TO THOSE 16 AND OLDER YESTERDAY. BUT STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS AREN’T LETTING UP ON THE GAS. >> I WAS JUST WALKING BY HERE AND I JUST HAPPENED TO CHECK. SANIKA: A NO-APPOINTMENT MOBILE CLINIC IN DAYTONA BEACH SAW A STEADY NUMBER OF VISITORS TUESDAY. FAMILY HEALTH SOURCE WORKED WITH CITY OFFICIALS TO OPEN A SITE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF A POPULATION CONSIDERED UNDERSERVED IN THE AREA. >> THEY SAID THEY WAS DOING IT AND THEY SAID WALK IN, NO APPOINTMENTS, SO YOU CAN’T BEAT THAT SANIKA: IN SANFORD, ANOTHER MOBILE VACCINATION SITE AT IGLESIA VIDA NUEVA. >> I’M HERE BECAUSE THIS IS MY FAMILY FROM CHURCH, AND I CRY BECAUSE I WAS WITH THEM, MY FAMILY I’VE GOT MY FAMILY RIGHT HERE. >> NOT EVERYONE CAN DRIVE TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT OR WHATEVER, ANYWHERE ELSE, YOU NEED TO GO WHERE PEOPLE ARE. WHERE PEOPLE ARE IN NEED. SANIKA: THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN MARION COUNTY ANNOUNCED TUESDAY IT’S SCHEDULING APPROXIMATELY 8,000 FIRST-DOSE VACCINE APPOINTMENTS THIS WEEK. YOU DO NEED TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT THERE. BUT MORE NO-APPOINTMENT MOBILE VACCINATION SITES ARE CONTINUING TO POP UP ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA. TOMORROW, EACH OF THESE BRAND NEW MOBILE LOCATIONS WILL BE OPEN FROM 10:00 A.M. TO 6:00 P.M. OR UNTIL SUPPLIES RUN OUT. EACH CAN ADMINISTER UP TO 400 OF THE JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINE. SANIKA DANGE, WESH 2