Another year of holiday cheer in the “River City,” as thousands of families across Jacksonville flooded the Prime Osborn Convention Center on Saturday for their chance at free toys and bikes this holiday season.
Plans to boost the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations in Duval County are getting bogged down by a limited amount of vaccine doses that is far short of the demand coming from residents for the vaccine shots.
The city of Jacksonville is ready to open its own city-run COVID-19 vaccination sites but is waiting for shipments of the vaccines in sufficient numbers to make the shots available at two sites the city would use to administer the vaccinations Mandarin Senior Center and the Lane Wiley Senior Center on the Westside. If we could get the vaccines in Jacksonville today, we would have city locations vaccinating within 48 hours, city Chief Administrative Officer Brian Hughes said Tuesday in briefings to City Council committees. I am doing everything in my power to get the vaccines.