The mayor of Miami-Dade says the COVID dating site is being started by the province

MIAMI According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are now 125 cases of the B117 strain, also known as the British variant. This variant has been detected in Florida, with more than half of the cases in the counties of Broward and Miami-Dade.

The race is underway for South Floridaers to be vaccinated. On Sunday, Hard Rock Stadium vaccinated 1,200 people.

Researchers at the University of Miami are actively looking for different cases by looking at the virus in patients at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

As Floridians have been struggling to make appointments since vaccine distribution began, the state hopes to make things easier with a centralized website: myvaccine.fl.gov.

Meanwhile, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday in South Florida this week that the province will also unveil a similar registration website this week.

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“The biggest problem is supply,” Levine Cava said. “We will only enter people once and we will deduct from the list as the stock becomes available, but we will not book appointments until we receive our award each week.”

The website where people can sign up for an appointment is vaccines.nomihealth.com/mdc.

‘I created the centralized information site miamidade.gov/vaccine, which is also available in Spanish and Creole, and we have now ordered all delivery sites to provide us with the information they have. The state does its thing, and when the federal government gets involved, you know they’ll do their thing, and the most important point is that the public should have a centralized source of information so as not to have the anxiety of constantly hunting. not, ‘Levine Cava said.

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The demand for vaccine is currently higher than the available supply.

Despite the fact that blacks and Hispanics are excessively affected by COVID-19, many in these communities do not receive vaccinations.

Lack of access and mistrust is one of the reasons why the expert doctor Hansel Tookes blames the phenomenon.

“There is deep distrust in the vaccine in minority communities, and Tuskegee is one example of evil, but what I’m telling my patients is that we can not allow the evil that took place in Tuskegee to harm us today in 2021, “the dr. Tookes said. Said Sunday on This Week in South Florida.

That skepticism among the community is nothing new. The Tuskegee syphilis experiment in the 1930s is just one example in which a disease progressed without treatment.

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Local research is also under way into how well vaccines can protect against the British strain. The more transmissible strain in the UK is possibly more dangerous.

“(This) variant is not only more contagious, but perhaps also more serious,” said dr. Aileen Marty, expert on FIU infectious diseases, said earlier this weekend.

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