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Florida City COVID vaccine site does about-face after giving shots to all The FEMA site was enforcing Gov. DeSantisâ eligibility rules Saturday but threw it open because few people showed up. Â Â People wait in line Sunday to get vaccinated at the FEMA Florida City Vaccination site at the Florida City Youth Center. [ DANIEL A. VARELA | Miami Herald ] By Miami Herald Updated Mar. 7 A Florida City COVID vaccination site that responded to low demand Saturday by vaccinating everybody found high demand Sunday morning as it reverted back to state limitations. The predictable disorgan...
Mar. 3—Florida teachers and school staff can now book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment at all Navarro Discount Pharmacies and CVS y mas stores in Miami-Dade. But there seems to be some confusion on who is eligible. Under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis executive order, only K-12 school personnel ages 50 and older are eligible for the vaccine. Daycare and preschool workers are not. But Miami-Dade ...
— Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald Updated Friday at 4:25 p.m. Florida’s Department of Health confirmed an additional 5,922 positive cases of COVID-19 Friday. Florida has a total of 1,898,223 confirmed positive cases, according to the state's health department. Friday's update also included the announcement of 146 new resident deaths, increasing the statewide number of Floridians who died to 30,624. Factoring in non-resident deaths the number of deaths due to COVID-19 is 31,162. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties make up 10,219 of those reported deaths. Monroe County has reported 46...
/ Pfizer applied today for emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its coronavirus vaccine. This post will be updated today, Monday, Feb. 1, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida. WLRN staff continues to add updates on testing and vaccination sites, executive orders and messages from government officials, and the latest news on COVID-19. You can find information on free food and food distributions here. The dedicated website for the Florida Department of Health, including information about the numbers of cases, can be found...