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More than 50% of 65+ population vaccinated in all Central Florida counties Share Updated: 6:00 PM EDT Mar 15, 2021 More than 50% of 65+ population vaccinated in all Central Florida counties Share Updated: 6:00 PM EDT Mar 15, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript AS WESH 2’S MICHELLE MEREDITH STEWART: WESH 2 MEREDITH MICHELLE MEREDITH HAS MORE. MICHELLE: AT THE LAKE SQUARE MALL IN LEESBURG, THERE WAS STEADY FLOW OF PEOPLE MOVING IN AND OUT, THERE TO GET THEIR COVID-19 VACCINE, SOME FOR THE FIRST TIME, LIKE BETTY AND HER HUSBAND, EARL. DOES IT FEEL GOOD? IT FEELS EXCELLENT, RELIEVED. EXCELLENT. MICHELLE: SO HOW ARE VACCINATION EFFORTS GOING IN LAKE COUNTY? IT WAS A ROUGH START BACK IN JANUARY WITH CONFUSION OVER WHERE FOLKS COULD GET THEIR SECOND DOSE. BUT AT A NEWS CONFERENCE MONDAY, COUNTY LEADERS ANNOUNCED AT THIS POINT 70% OF THE SENIORS IN LAKE COUNTY HAVE NOW BEEN VACCINATED. THIS SITE AT THE LAKE SQUARE MALL ....
(iStock) Pino said he didn’t know how they were able to get their first shot, and it’s unclear if they used the same ruse. I don’t know how they escaped for the first time, he said. The incident was turned over to local authorities, who issued trespassing warnings to the women. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said one of the women was 44 years old and the other was 34 years old, local outlet WWL-TV reported. In Florida, only adults ages 65 and up, health care workers and assisted living residents and staff are eligible for the vaccine. ....
DeSantis: Federal gov t. sending Florida 47k additional COVID vaccines next week ABC 27 WTXL and last updated 2021-01-26 22:16:20-05 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Governor Ron DeSantis announced in a tweet Tuesday night next week s COVID-19 vaccine allocation will increase by 47,000. Gov. DeSantis issued the following statement regarding the increase: For the past several weeks, Florida has received approximately 260,000 first doses per week, and during that time frame, we averaged 375,000 first dose vaccines administered per week. Fortunately, we just learned that next week, Florida will receive 307,000 first doses from the federal government. While we welcome this modest increase, supply remains a critical issue in vaccinating our 65 and older population. My administration will continue working hard to swiftly distribute the vaccine to Florida s seniors while requesting the federal government increase our supply as quickly as possible. ....
Senior citizens in Florida who are eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine are struggling to book appointments due to high demand. For some, who spend hours a day going to different health department websites, it feels hopeless; Robert Sherman reports The potential new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has cautioned that at least one new coronavirus strain has shown resistance to treatments, but insists the vaccines are still effective. A number of new COVID-19 strains have arisen over the past month, stirring concern that current treatments and vaccines will not be effective. Those concerns are largely unfounded, Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan. ....