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Stores will have 100 to 125 shots available per day, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday morning in Jupiter. They will be reserved for people ages 65 and older.

Marion County health officials are ramping up communication with thousands of seniors who have registered for the COVID-19 vaccine but have not yet gotten calls to set appointments. Those people will receive emails notifying them where they are on the list and an estimated time when they may be called to set an appointment. Those who do not have email addresses will get phone calls.  During their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, county commissioners emphasized that the local health de...

An eye-popping 222 additional COVID-19 deaths were reported across the state on Thursday, the highest amount since mid-August, according to the Florida Department of Health.

The Palm Beach Post hosted a 30-minute Q&A session on COVID-19 vaccine distribution issues in Palm Beach County.

The county’s largest cities — including West Palm, Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Palm Beach Gardens — each received 200 vials. Smaller cities, such as Tequesta, got 50 doses. “That’s all we had left,” Dr. Alina Alonso said via text when asked why such paltry amounts were distributed. Not surprisingly, cities that advertised that vaccines were available had appointments fill up in minutes. Instead of offering them to seniors with the fastest draw on their phones, West Palm Beach ...

In the waiting line and worried: Florida seniors question when they’ll get COVID-19 vaccine He’s 84, shes 79.  He has persistent, chronic AFib, or atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart condition that he manages with regular doses of the blood thinner Coumadin. “If I got COVID I wouldn’t survive, given my heart condition,” he said during a phone interview Wednesday. “I would really fear contracting the disease and going into the hospital.” Wearing masks and social distancing ha...

Dr. Joseph Stolman is no stranger to being a guinea pig. A professor at Mass General, where he interned following his 1955 graduation from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, asked him for a chunk of his healthy cheek tissue for a study on a mouth condition that could lead to oral cancer. After many years of teaching and practicing periodontics in Connecticut, and well into his retirement, Stolman continues to participate in Harvard’s health professional study, which each year poses detail...

Jim Saunders, News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — It will be a lot more difficult to put proposed constitutional amendments on the 2022 ballot in Florida. Heavy turnout in this year’s election and a new law that seeks to limit ballot initiatives have driven up the number of petition signatures that groups will have to submit to get on the ballot in 2022 and to trigger crucial reviews by the Florida Supreme Court. Groups will have to submit 891,589 valid signatures to put issues on the ba...

PANAMA CITY — Both of Panama City’s hospitals are slated to get their first round of the COVID-19 vaccine from the state possibly as soon as next week. According to a press release from the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center and Ascension Sacred Heart Bay will receive doses of Moderna’s vaccine. They are two of 173 hospitals set to get some of the 367,000 doses of the vaccine next week, pending emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...

What started as a week of triumph and hope for Florida in its fight against COVID-19 has ended in frustration and confusion, with the anticipated number of doses in future weeks sharply reduced and the rollout to nursing homes in flux. Adding to the confusion is a lack of transparency from public officials, who have failed to provide requested information and clarification about which nursing homes will receive the first allotment of the vaccine or what criteria was used in selecting those ...