Prime Osborn, two Jacksonville centers, begin administering the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The city of Jacksonville will begin administering the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine at two senior centers Monday morning, as the first public recipients of vaccines will return to the state-run Prime Minister Osborn Conference Center for a second time.

Between the three sites, about 2,000 people are expected to receive their second doses this week. This is almost double the average number of people in Jacksonville who receive their first dose each day, because supplies are still limited.

Monday marks 21 days after the vaccination sites at the Lane Wiley Senior Center and Mandarin Senior Center began administering the Pfizer vaccine to people 65 and older and health workers. People who received their first dose at one of the two senior centers must return to the site for their second dose 21 days after their first shot. For example, if you received your first vaccine at a senior center in Jacksonville on January 11, you must return on February 1 at a time based on the first letter of your surname.

Here is the explanation:

If you start with A, B, C or D, come to the site between 09:00 and 10:00
If you start with E, F, G or H, come to the site between 10:00 and 11:00
If you start with I, J, K or L, come to the website between 11:00 and 12:00
If you start with M, N, O or P, come to the website between 12 and 13 hours
If you start with Q, R, S or T, come to the website between 13:00 and 14:00
If you start with U, V or W, come to the site between 14:00 and 15:00
If you start with X, Y or Z, come to the website between 15:00 and 16:00
Those who are unable to arrive at their appointed time are asked to come to the website between 16:00 and 17:00. The sites will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Patients will receive a call a day before their second dose.

Those who have already had their first dose at the senior centers are asked to bring along the identification and record card they received when they got their first chance.

To save time, the city is also asking those receiving their second dose to bring along a completed COVID-19 vaccination form and consent form, which can be found here. Printed forms will also be available at the senior centers.

The city said the second doses will be administered until February 12 at the two senior centers.

Both senior centers stopped giving the first doses on January 21 after the city ran out of supplies.

The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are administered only in Jacksonville at the state-run vaccination center at the Regency Square Mall to people 65 and older and health workers.

News4Jax was in the Mandarin Senior Center on Friday when several hundred people got their second shot in what Mayor Lenny Curry calls a ‘soft launch’.

“What we have shown at the city level – whether it is distributing stimulus checks, whether it is being tested, and now the distribution of vaccines – is that we do it smartly, responsibly and efficiently, but then we also adapt,” Curry said. said. . “We have adapted here. We moved the second round to be based on the first letter of the surname towards the birthday, and we believe it will be an improvement on the previous distribution, but I would say if you get the first survey, you should second one. Please get it. Do not let it pass if necessary. ”

Curry said there is currently no timeline when Jacksonville will receive more doses. The city does not have access to supplies.

Curry said the federal government is currently centralizing the distribution for first doses at the Regency Square Mall. If doses come in again, the city could spread and possibly expand.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that the state is expected to receive 307,000 first doses from the federal government this week.

On January 25, the Florida Department of Health in Duval County began administering second doses to people who had received their vaccine 28 days earlier at the vaccination site at the Prime Osborn Convention Center. Most of those vaccinated in the first few days were Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department employees and those working for the city of Jacksonville, and they returned with a second shot last week.

Monday will be 28 days after the first doses of the Moderna vaccine were administered to members aged 65 and older and health workers in the conference center.

Like the senior centers, the vaccination center for the conference center no longer offers the first doses of the vaccine, but if you first got a chance at the conference center, you will have to return there 28 days later, at the same time as the had first appointment at the congress. center to receive the second dose of Moderna vaccine.

For example, if your first dose was 4 January 4 January, you will return to the Prime Osborn at 14:00 on 1 February for your second dose. (The date of your second dose is on the back of the CDC vaccination card you were given when the first shot was received.)

Monica Sharp is among those who will receive their second dose at the conference center on Monday.

“I’m 69 and active, but know, I’ve avoided activities over the past year, and I’m looking forward to getting them,” Sharp told News4Jax on Sunday.

Sharp said the process of getting her first dose was a challenge, but she understands that it is a new challenge for everyone.

“People are desperate to get it. I think most people are, and they are afraid of becoming COVID, ‘she said. ‘I was definitely glad that a vaccine came out and that I could get it. I feel very happy. ”

Data from the Florida Department of Health shows that nearly 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in the state as of Saturday. While 1,364,416 of the shots were first doses and 314,528 second doses, the number of second doses began to exceed the number of initial shots as the supply of vaccine to the state decreased.

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