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Both Manatee County and Sarasota County have opted out of a new vaccine registration system launched by the state Friday morning.
“More than 100,000 parties have enrolled in our standby pool, and we don’t want to cause confusion locally by asking people to enroll in a separate system,” Nick Azzara, a spokesman for Manatee County, said in an email.
“Like many other Florida counties that have had an online registration up and running for several weeks,” he said, “Manatee County is opting out of the new state enrollment system.”
Florida’s new registration system for vaccination appointments was launched Friday morning to some confusion, leaving hundreds of thousands already in line in Sarasota and Manatee counties confused about where they stood.
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Florida officials on Friday rolled out a statewide website for people to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccinations.
The website, myvaccine.fl.gov, allows Floridians to sign up for vaccinations within their home counties.
People who are eligible for the shots, including front-line health care workers and Florida residents ages 65 and older, will be contacted when appointments become available, according to Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz.
The website will provide a portal for people to enter their personal information “so they can stop hunting for an appointment,” Moskowitz told The News Service of Florida on Friday.
Florida Democrats said they want Gov. Ron DeSantis to stop bragging about the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and to fix the problems with the COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
Florida Department of Health
State health officials reported 11,423 new COVID-19 cases, Thursday, for a total of 1,687,594 infections.
The Florida Department of Health reported 202 coronavirus-related deaths, Jan. 28, increasing the statewide death toll to 26,456 fatalities.
The latest single-day positivity rate reported by the Florida Division of Emergency Management stood at 9.58% on Wednesday. Over the past two weeks the single-day positivity rate has ranged between 8.37% and 15.84%.
The Agency for Health Care Administration reports that as of this morning 6,512 patients are admitted to hospitals throughout the state with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, including 465 patients in hospitals in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hendry, Lee, Manatee and Sarasota counties combined.