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National Guard to assist with COVID-19 vaccinations at Regency site Jacksonville’s only state-run vaccination site to get aid Updated:  Tags:  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The National Guard is sending airmen from the 125th Fighter Wing to assist with COVID-19 vaccinations at Jacksonville’s only state run-site. Sixty airmen will help vaccinate those eligible to get the shot at Regency Square Mall. More than 7,000 vaccines were administered at the site in the first seven days. “As we’ve seen...

Florida launches vaccine pre-registration website Lack of supply still limits when appointments will become available Jake Stofan, Tallahassee corespondent Updated:  Tags:  The Florida Department of Health said Florida residents 65 and older and frontline healthcare workers can enter their information on that website and will be contacted when doses are available at state-run vaccination sites in their area. In Northeast Florida, the only site is currently at Regency Square in Jacksonville. R...

After ‘soft launch’ Friday, second vaccine doses start Monday at 2 city-run sites Updated:  Tags:  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – City staff is gearing up to give a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to 12,000 people who received their first shot at one of Jacksonville’s senior citizen centers. A few hundred people received their second shot Friday at either the Lane Wiley or the Mandarin senior center in which Mayor Lenny Curry called a soft launch. “(We) identified people to do a soft laun...

Florida Leads Nation With Nearly 1 Million Seniors Vaccinated Patch 1/23/2021 © Provided by Patch FLORIDA —On Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joined decorated World War II veteran and centenarian Henry Sayler to witness Sayler receiving his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The moment commemorated Florida nearing one million seniors vaccinated, more than any other state in the country. “Florida is reaching a milestone as we work to rapidly deploy vaccines to seniors,” DeSantis...

UpdatedSat, Jan 30, 2021 at 9:02 pm ET Replies(16) Residents age 65 and older check into the new state-run vaccination clinic at University Square Mall in Tampa. (Department of Health-Hillsborough County) Correction: The state has contracted with vendor Sharecare to handle appointments for residents to get vaccinated. FLORIDA — Hoping to restore order to whats been chaos since the coronavirus vaccine was rolled out to residents 65 and older in late December, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the...

Hurry-up-and-wait was the name of the game again for people converging Wednesday on Regency Square mall in Jacksonville when it became the newest COVID-19 vaccination site. As that site opened, the state and the city of Jacksonville moved to start winding down vaccinations at three other sites: the Prime Osborn Convention Center in downtown, the Mandarin Senior Center and the Lane Wiley Senior Center on the Westside. By mid-day Wednesday, about 300 people stood in line to get shots at the Regen...

Stolen Florida Lottery scratch-off tickets valued together at $6,520 from a Jacksonville Circle K store led to the arrest of an employee, according to the Nassau County Sheriffs Office. Richard Dawayne Fonville, 37, of Hilliard was charged Monday with theft over $5,000, according to Nassau County jail records. The arrest report said Fonville is the assistant manager of the Circle K on Regency Square Boulevard. He was left in charge of the store for a few days over the holidays while the manage...

Plans to boost the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Duval County are getting bogged down by a limited amount of vaccine doses that is far short of the demand coming from residents for the vaccine shots. The city of Jacksonville is ready to open its own city-run COVID-19 vaccination sites but is waiting for shipments of the vaccines in sufficient numbers to make the shots available at two sites the city would use to administer the vaccinations — Mandarin Senior Center and the Lane Wiley...

Gone in 2020: Businesses also victims of pandemic Published:  Tags:  More than 100,000 stores and restaurants went out of business in 2020. (Matthew Horwood/GettyImages) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – From your neighborhood watering hole to major retailers, well over 100,000 businesses have closed in the past 10 months as COVID-19 swept across America. According to data scientists at Yelp, 60% of those might never reopen. “Business closures have continued to rise, with a 34% increase in permanent c...

How are you? Nothing has been simple in 2020, neither questions nor answers. With its first confirmed case in Virginia on March 7, COVID-19 and the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2, tore through communities and separated loved ones. It wreaked uncertainty and unknowns, masks and mandates, loneliness, fear, anger, exhaustion and mourning. The new coronavirus has affected every person, every day, in almost every way: careers, finances, education, nutrition, housing, faith, business, politics, tra...