How to find COVID-19 vaccine sites in Florida for anyone 12 and older
Vaccine shots in Florida available to 12 years old and up
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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2021, file photo, Florida seniors have their temperatures taken before receiving the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Health System in Miami. COVID-19 hospitalizations are plunging among older Americans. The falling numbers show the countrys vaccination strategy is working, pushing deaths lower and easing pressure on the frayed hospital system. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
This story was first published Dec. 28, 2020 and is updated daily with the latest coronavirus vaccine information for Central Florida.
The Central Florida community will only have a couple more days to receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at Valencia College’s West Campus FEMA-backed site.
Mass COVID-19 vaccine sites are closing. Demand is slipping. What does that mean for herd immunity?
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Now she’s struggling to literally give them away.
“Demand is extremely low,” said Dunn, CEO of Sanford-based True Health, a community health center with seven Central Florida locations. “And for Johnson & Johnson, it’s basically non-existent. I think the [vaccine’s] pause really stifled people’s desire to get it.”
It has been much the same throughout Central Florida in recent days and not only for the re-launched Johnson & Johnson vaccine, halted for 11 days over reports of rare blood clots. As mass vaccination sites in Orange, Lake, Volusia and Polk counties begin to shutter their operations over the coming week, demand for Pfizer and Moderna is also faltering, raising the question of when or if the goal of herd immunity can be reached.
Three weeks ago, Janelle Dunn was counting down the hours to the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines that her nonprofit health clinic had been pleading for since January. Now she’s struggling to literally give them away. “Demand is extremely low,” said Dunn, CEO of Sanford-based True Health, a community health center with seven Central Florida locations. “And for Johnson & Johnson, it’s basically .
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