LEE COUNTY, Fla. Hundreds of people set up camp in Lee County on Tuesday night to wait in line for a COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday morning.
As of 6:30 a.m., all three vaccination sites in Lee County had hit their capacity. The afternoon sessions of vaccines are closed because the allotted doses have been allotted.
Additional sites will open next week.
Vaccinations are scheduled at three different locations:
- North Fort Myers: North Fort Myers Rec. centre
- Cape Coral: Cultural Park Theater
- Fort Myers: Lakes Regional Park Library
Each dose dispensed 800 doses of the vaccine on Wednesday.
Vaccinations are only for people 65 years and older, or health workers.
People had already started waiting in line for the vaccine on Tuesday morning.
Abdulla Benkhatar, 90, has been in line since 10am on Tuesday. He is first in line at North Fort Myers Rec. Centre.
“It’s very difficult,” he said. ‘We’ve been home for almost ten months now. It is very important to me for my health and to be able to do things that I would like to do and become normal again. ”
Benkhatar said he was excited to see his grandchildren again.
Just south, at Lakes Regional Library, dozens began queuing Tuesday night to mark their place in the queue.
People brought extra coats, chairs, blankets and mini tents. Just before four o’clock it appeared that more than 300 people were standing in line.
At Cape Coral’s Cultural Park Theater, people also lined up late Tuesday night, some waiting in their cars and even bringing RVs.
Vaccinations only start at 09:00
On Monday and Tuesday, the first days of vaccine application, the sites hit capacity in the early morning hours.
The Department of Health has not yet released details of any vaccination sites in Lee County.