You ve been vaccinated for COVID-19? The next challenge: Getting your second shot Douglas Hanks and Samantha J. Gross, The Miami Herald
Jan. 14 Minutes after receiving his COVID-19 vaccination at a county park Wednesday, Lane Middleton, 68, rolled down his window to show the white card telling him he ll need a second shot sometime after Feb. 10 to complete the immunization process and start contemplating life without coronavirus dread. Zoom is my middle name, the Miami Shores lawyer said, from the parking lot of the appointment-only vaccination site set up at Tropical Park. I haven t been out to lunch since March.
State and local officials insist Middleton shouldn t worry about that second, final dose being available when it s time.
His comments came in response to a tweet by Anthony Pompliano, identified by Bitcoin.com as a Morgan Creek Digital partner. Pompliano had written: Retweet this if you would move to Miami if Mayor @FranisSuarez put 1% of the city s treasury.
Alvarez-Pousa told NBC 6 it is not only unfair, but morally wrong – which is why he tipped off the NBC 6 Investigators. He hopes the attention would bring about change.
“We are taxpayers,” he said. “We are doing everything possible here in Florida to help each other and at the same time somebody out of the blue is coming here and taking the vaccine, which is the most precious thing we have right now.”
Cindy Guntner says she knows of at least three people who had traveled from the Northeast to Florida to get the vaccine. The Broward resident, who is 66 years old, is anxiously waiting her turn.
Florida Expects to Receive 250K More Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine in Next Week
The state has already received more than 1.2 million doses to date, the Florida Division of Emergency Management said.
Nearly 500,000 Have Received 1st Covid Vaccine Shot in Florida
About 478,000 people have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination since the state started administering the vaccine in mid-December, according to the latest vaccination report released by the state on Saturday. About 35,800 have received the second booster shot.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state is now averaging more than 40,000 vaccinations per day and hopes to increase that number as additional supply of the vaccine arrives in the state.