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Refrigerated boxes of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Seminole County Vaccine Point of Dispensing Site in Florida, before its opening, on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)
Covid-19 vaccines sit at hospitals as doctors, pharmacies await doses
WASHINGTON Stephen Nuckolls, who runs a North Carolina health care medical group called Coastal Carolina Health Care, has deep freezers capable of storing the two authorized Covid-19 vaccines and hundreds of staff ready to give it. But after two weeks of emailing the North Carolina health department, he couldn’t get a supply.
“My medical practice and many others have mostly completed our annual flu shot clinics and have staff and freezers (yes -70c) standing by to administer the shots,” he wrote in a Dec. 23 email to the Medical Group Management Association, a Washington, D.C.-based trade group representing independent practices. “But despite our repeated emails to
In-Depth: How San Diego s vaccine super site compares to other cities and states
Efforts for mass vaccinations ramp up across U.S.
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Local leaders are hailing the opening of San Diego s vaccination super station as a massive success after the first few days saw more vaccinations distributed than previously planned.
But as efforts to ramp up distributions at Petco Park to 5,000 doses per day continue, ABC 10News wanted to find out if San Diego is ahead of the game or only playing catch up. We want to rapidly and quickly learn the lessons from this and then plan more, says County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, while adding that another Super Station is in the works for the South Bay.
DeSantis says feds’ shift vindicates his call to get vaccines to seniors first
Christine Sexton, Reporter, News Service of Florida
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DeSantis: Nearly 350,000 Florida seniors have received COVID-19 vaccine
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday his decision to steer highly sought-after COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older has been vindicated by a Trump administration announcement that it will do the same.
But the Trump administration’s decision to use supplies it has held in reserve to vaccinate more people has some Florida hospitals worried.
“There’s concerns here about the ability for us to be able to get our complete supply for our second doses, given they are going to distribute the entire vaccine supply,” a Venice Regional Bayfront Health official, who did not identify herself, said Tuesday morning on a hospital-industry phone call with Florida Department of Health Secretary Scott Rivkees and Agency for Health Care Administr