BROOKSVILLE â Gov. Ron DeSantis visited the High Point senior community on Feb. 24 to announce more vaccines were on the way for Hernando County seniors this week.
He said the state of Florida has been responding well to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations among its 4.5 million seniors, but some counties are lagging behind. Hernando County, he said, was ranked in the bottom five among the percentage of seniors who have been vaccinated. Yet, when Publix began its pilot vaccine program in Hernando â one of the first few counties in Florida to do so â DeSantis said that residents from all over the state were eager to grab appointments no matter what county they were from.
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CVS Pharmacy in Naples is now offering vaccines for COVID-19, but the first set of appointments were quickly booked Wednesday, according to the company.
The CVS website does not indicate which store or stores are offering the shots, only the city where they re available and whether or not they have available openings. No stores in Lee or Charlotte counties were on the list.
As of midday Wednesday, CVS had multiple available slots in the Miami area, Belle Glade, Doral, Hialeah, Homestead and Pensacola.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that 81 CVS Pharmacies statewide will offer the vaccine.
“I’m pleased to join CVS Health today to announce 81 additional COVID-19 vaccination sites across our state, including 67 in Miami-Dade County,” said DeSantis at a Navarro Discount Pharmacy location in Hialeah. “These sites at select CVS Health locations will build on the progress we’ve made at existing retail sites and significantly increase access to the vac
DeSantis was at the Navarro Discount Pharmacy in Hialeah to announce the expansion of a federal retail pharmacy program that began under the Biden administration and already includes Walmart, Sam s Club, Publix and Winn-Dixie stores.
The federal program started at 1 million doses a week nationwide, but was doubled to 2 million doses in its second week. Retail pharmacies are a big part of our . strategy
CVS Health, already responsible for thousands of nursing home residents vaccinations, will begin to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to its customers at 81 stores across Florida, including 67 in Miami-Dade County run by Navarro, a once independent chain bought by CVS in 2014.