The vaccination site is open every day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Valencia College West Campus. Federal staff from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Defense are supporting state and local agencies in administering the vaccine.
Up to 2,000 vaccine doses will be administered at the vaccination site daily, according to a FEMA spokesperson. The site is also supplying 1,000 vaccines daily to two satellite sites in Orange County.
By midday Wednesday, the site had only administered 500 of those doses, according to officials. The site only administered 1,800 vaccine doses in total that first day. People were getting in and out of the center in about 45 minutes.
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Officials are busy setting up Valencia College’s West Campus because beginning Wednesday, thousands of people will be getting vaccinated at this site every day.