More than 5,800 people are still waiting on a COVID-19 vaccine from the Leon County Department of Health. We are not able to provide an approximate wait time for call backs and continue to ask our senior community for patience as we continue to manage a high volume of request forms, Pam Saulsby, Leon County health department spokeswoman, wrote in an email to the Tallahassee Democrat.
The local health department did not specify how many doses of the vaccine it currently has and noted that the vaccine doses it does receive are shared with local healthcare providers.
Saulsby added that if seniors miss a call from the health department or Leon County volunteers, their names remain on the department s master list. Volunteers will continue to call, but will not leave voicemails, she said.
City commission approves new plan to tackle vaccine racial disparities
Tallahassee city commissioners are discussing a new communications plan for the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) â Tallahassee city commissioners approved a new communications plan for the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday.
The idea is to give people the correct information while still letting them decide whether to take the vaccine. The NAACP said itâs a step in the right direction in closing the minority disparity gap. What COVID has done has pretty much shown that, what has always been the case for African-American communities, a lot of those disparities come from just not having the information, said Tallahassee NAACP Branch Mutaqee Akbar.