The Miami Herald
On Tuesday afternoon, July 7, 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis holds a press conference at the Miami Medical Center, a COVID-19 only nursing facility that can care for up to 150 patients being released from hospitals but who can’t be taken back to their nursing homes.
TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday asked Floridians to be patient as COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out for the state’s seniors, a process that is already creating a rush and placing a substantial burden on hospitals that play a key role in carrying out the governor’s directives.
DeSantis departed last week from federal guidelines and decided to make people 65 and older a priority for vaccinations, as opposed to “essential” workers such as teachers, first responders and grocery-store employees.
Florida Gov. DeSantis urges patience amid high demand for vaccinations
Christine Sexton, News Service of Florida
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday asked Floridians to be patient as COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out for the state’s seniors, a process that is already creating a rush and placing a substantial burden on hospitals that play a key role in carrying out the governor’s directives.
DeSantis departed last week from federal guidelines and decided to make people 65 and older a priority for vaccinations, as opposed to “essential” workers such as teachers, first responders and grocery-store employees.
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Delta Air Lines has established warehouses and cooler facilities in Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle to store the vaccines. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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A month of miracles. South Florida hospitals work together on COVID-19 vaccination Ben Conarck, The Miami Herald
Dec. 17 Inside a large conference room at the Hilton Miami Dadeland on Baptist Health South Florida s campus Wednesday, employees from the healthcare system lined up to receive their doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine under an abstract light fixture designed to illuminate the types of corporate events that went away in March.
Jose Ojeda, a pharmacist who works in the emergency department, was one of the Baptist employees lining up for a dose that could bring him closer to that pre-pandemic world. He was receiving it two days before his 29th birthday. Ojeda said he had hoped to get the vaccine before then a first step in putting a scary year behind him.
Amid some resistance by healthcare workers, COVID-19 vaccine delivery continues to roll out Print
With early delivery of the first COVID-19 vaccine going smoothly, healthcare leaders are campaigning for clinicians to take and promote the vaccine.
As the first 2.9 million doses of the vaccine began to be delivered this week, three major provider-advocacy groups publicly urged clinicians to take the vaccine.
“Our hope is simple; we urge you to get the COVID-19 vaccine and share your experience with others,” states an open letter from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Nurses Association and the American Medical Association.
An AHA spokesman said that letter stemmed from “public polling we have seen, along with what we are hearing from members when they talk to their workforce.”