Thousands more waited in digital lines for their number to come up in county-run vaccine pools.
But for some lucky Floridians, getting a vaccine was as easy as hopping in their golf carts and rolling down to the clubhouse.
Pop-up clinics offering exclusive vaccine access sprouted at country clubs and a long list of golf course communities stretching from Delray Beach to Lakeland and Ocala. Special clinics also dotted the west coast, from the Tampa exurbs to Naples, where shots were given at a clubhouse in a community with two private beaches and homes that have sold for more than $14 million. A pair of yacht clubs in Martin County and the Florida Keys even secured special vaccine access.
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More than 4.2 million people in Florida were vaccinated against Covid-19 as of Monday. | Hauke-Christian Dittrich/Pool via AP
Major donors to South Florida hospital foundation got early vaccine access
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TALLAHASSEE The fundraising foundation for the Baptist Health of South Florida hospital system told donors who could afford at least six-figure financial contributions on New Year’s Day that they were eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine, at a time when vaccine doses were in short supply in the rest of the state.
The email, sent by hospital foundation CEO Alexandra Villoch to the collection of more than 3,000 wealthy donors and obtained by POLITICO, offers another glimpse into the exclusive access some of Florida’s well-to-do enclaves received at a time when the state was left with 266,000 fresh doses per week. Pop-up vaccination sites in affluent, mostly white pockets of the state have become a political thorn in the side of Gov. Ron
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