Hundreds of people turned up at a center in Florida on Monday for a hasty experiment in vaccine distribution: The COVID-19 vaccine, recently offered by the Department of Health in Florida, is being used on the first-one-first-ever basis. base base spread.
Provincial officials considered setting up an appointment system for the vaccines, they said, but demand was high and time was short.
Just last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) elected the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. say that Florida’s second wave of vaccines will be available to anyone 65 years and older, rather than essential workers. He is one of a number of governors setting their own priorities for distribution.
“We have to ride this bike while we build it,” said Lee Desjarlais (pictured above), the Lee County driver, on a personal information session Monday.
“It’s unfortunate that there really is a finite number of vaccines available,” he later added. “And it’s a shame we did not have three weeks to plan this event.”
The province announced Monday at the vaccination site on Sunday, and according to almost immediately local outlets, people started queuing to wait overnight.
Eventually, 600 people were vaccinated on Monday, higher than the initial estimate of 300 or 400 shots. Additional sites are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
The last man to get a shot on Monday, Larry Ellis, told the local station WINK that his wife did not make the cut. She made the last ticket available because ‘I have more health problems than she does,’ he said.
At the press briefing on Monday, Desjarlais described an elderly couple who, according to him, had been camping in grass chairs overnight, wrapped in blankets and waiting for the vaccine.
“Some people feel pretty desperate about the whole thing,” he said.