Capital Regional Medical Center also reported its largest number of inpatients positive for the virus, to date.
Leon now records 18,440 residents have tested positive for the virus since March and 173 have died, according to the state health department.
One more Wakulla County resident also has died, which leaves Wakulla with 22 recorded deaths among its 2,042 residents to test positive, according to the state health department.
Two more Jackson County people also have died, which brings the county s death total to 117 residents among 4,499 positives for the virus, according to state data.
State health officials organize case and death data by an individual s county of residence, which may not have been where they were when they tested positive for the virus or died.
Over 1,000 people in Leon County have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Florida Department of Health.
A total of 1,054 locals have received the first of two doses, the state health department reports. Statewide, over 122,000 people have received the first dose of the vaccine to date.
Leon County has reached 18,732 cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19 so far, according to the state health department. Locally, the department reports 173 total deaths associated with the virus.
Leon s two-week positivity rate is about 6.5%, according to state health department data. Health officials have said an area s 14-day positivity rate should stay at or below 5% to ensure enough of the population is getting tested.
In the waiting line and worried: Florida seniors question when they’ll get COVID-19 vaccine
He’s 84, she s 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 have so far kept him and his wife from getting COVID-19 in the 10 months since the pandemic began in March.
But it would be nice to know when they will get the vaccine.
Tallahassee hospitals begin administering COVID-19 vaccines
TMH and CRMC now administering COVID-19 vaccines
Tallahassee is joining places worldwide in giving out COVID-19 vaccinations, with more than 11,000 vials of the vaccine being distributed to healthcare workers.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Tallahassee is joining places worldwide in giving out COVID-19 vaccinations, with more than 11,000 vials of the vaccine being distributed to healthcare workers.
On Wednesday, Capital Regional Medical Center vaccinated close to 30 people with the Moderna vaccine. The hospital plans to administer 175 vaccinations a day until its 2,400 doses run out.
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare received 6,700 doses, and the hospital has to share some of those vaccines with other community clinics like Bond Community Clinic and Neighborhood First.
Capital Regional Medical Center
CEO of Capital Regional Medical Center, Alan Keesee, and pharmacy staff members are opening the hospital s first shipment of Moderna vaccines.
Update 3:30 Wednesday:
Tallahassee healthcare workers have begun receiving the coronavirus vaccine. Brittany Range (in the video below from Capital Regional Medical Center spokesperson Rachel Stiles) was the first staffer at Capital Regional Medical Center to receive the vaccine. Range is a registered nurse working in the emergency room.
Healthcare workers in Tallahassee have begun receiving the coronavirus vaccine.
In a press release, Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare spokesperson Danielle Buchanan says TMH received 6,700 Moderna vaccines Wednesday morning. That s more than the 5,600 doses the hospital had expected to receive.