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08:34 AM EST Share The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said there is no firm date to move from Regency Square Mall.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office appears to be moving its Zone 2 Substation in Arlington from Regency Square Mall to the Merrill Crossing shopping center at northeast Southside Connector and Merrill Road.
The city issued a permit March 4 for Warden Contracting Corp. to build-out 7,000 square feet of space at 9119 Merrill Road, No. 26, at a cost of $121,655.
The site is about 3 miles north of the Regency Square substation at 9501 Arlington Expressway.
“The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has been in the process of seeking and acquiring a new, larger space for Zone 2’s Substation,” said JSO Public Information Officer Christian Hancock in an email March 4.
It was like winning the lottery | Florida teachers receive COVID-19 vaccine ahead of schedule
Teachers around Northeast Florida reported getting a vaccine days before the state officially opened up vaccines to educators and first responders. Author: Troy Kless (First Coast News) Published: 6:24 PM EST March 1, 2021 Updated: 7:31 PM EST March 1, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Florida school employees 50 years and older can now get a COVID-19 vaccine, but educators reported getting early access to the shots this weekend.
When the state-run COVID-19 vaccination site at the Regency Square Mall opened to walk-ins, many teachers from Jacksonville and neighboring counties took advantage.
Victoria Kidwell, president of the Clay County Education Association, said she heard through the grapevine Regency was offering shots to teachers and took a chance.
Regency site to offer appointment-free COVID-19 shots to school employees, officers, firefighters 50+
Changes at state-run vaccination site go into effect Wednesday
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The qualifications to get COVID-19 vaccine shots at the state-run Regency Square Mall vaccination site will change Wednesday, the Florida Association of Public Information Officers said.
The change comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order Monday that will allow state and federal vaccination sites and retail pharmacies to begin vaccinating school employees, law enforcement officers and firefighters age 50 and older, in addition to people age 65 and older and frontline health care workers.
Over the last two weeks, the Regency site has let seniors and health care workers walk up and get vaccinated. Beginning Wednesday, according to the association, the site will offer shots to school employees, law enforcement officers and firefighters age 50 no appointment nec
Florida has administered over 4.3 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine. So where have all of those doses gone? In early February, WESH 2 News tracked the vaccine path through information from local health officials. This week, after submitting a public records request earlier in the month, WESH 2 News obtained lists from the Florida Division of Emergency Management showing where the vaccines have gone. Here are the takeaways:THE FIRST BATCHThe first batch of doses that Florida received from the federal government were Pfizer vaccines. The state received 179,400 doses in mid-December and FDEM data shows those vaccines went to these six counties first: Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Orange and Pinellas. The vaccines were distributed to five pilot hospitals, county health departments, pharmacies and strike teams to help in long-term care facilities. The next batch the state received were 367,900 Moderna doses. Data shows those vaccines went to over 170 hospitals that