Some Miami-Dade Vaccination Sites May Have to Close With No New Doses Expected Next Week
Some COVID-19 vaccination sites in Miami-Dade may have to close next week, as county officials said they ve been told they won t be receiving new doses next week.
The state-run sites at Hard Rock Stadium and Marlins Park will be receiving 7,000 vaccine doses each next week, but county officials said no doses are coming for county-run sites at Tropical Park or Zoo Miami.
County officials said the state placed the blame for the lack of doses on the federal government.
Florida Adds 13,720 New COVID Cases, Miami-Dade Reaches 4,500 Deaths Thursday
A new COVID-19 vaccination site has opened at Inter Miami’s stadium in Fort Lauderdale. Broward Health was partnering with the team and the City of Fort.
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Florida’s Department of Health confirmed an additional 14,896 positive cases of COVID-19 Tuesday. Florida has a total of 1,503,482 confirmed positive cases, according to the state s health department.
Florida Surpasses 1.5 Million COVID-19 Cases
The 14,896 new confirmed COVID-19 cases brought Florida s total to 1,503,482 since the outbreak began, according to figures released by the state s department of health.
‘We re Not Doing Any Tourists at Vaccine Sites: Florida Gov. DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state is continuing to prioritize seniors for the COVID-19 vaccine but said the state isn t making them available to tourists.
DeSantis held a news conference at The Villages Tuesday morning to give an update on the state s vaccination progress. We re not doing any tourists, some of these nursing home people may live here six months of the year so that s a little bit different, DeSantis said. We have people all over the country, because we put seniors first and because people actually see shots going in arms, you have literally people all over the world and all over the country calling here to see. We re not doing that, we re not doing it for tourists, we re