Total number of hospitalizations: 90,746
Current number of hospitalizations: 3,085
Daily positivity rate: 5.70%
Number of people fully vaccinated: 6,280,675
Daytona Beach resident Jonathan Squires, 66, refuses to get a COVID-19 vaccination, even though he s eligible. I wouldn t get a shot even if you held a gun to my head, that s how strong I feel about this, Squires said. I ve never had a flu shot. I don t trust this quick fix to a virus that is survivable.
While Squires said he himself hasn t had the virus, he knows people who have. But that still isn t enough to convince him to get the vaccine. I don t trust anything the government says we need to have, he said. They ve been poor stewards thus far, why would I trust [them] moving forward?
When 78-year-old Deltona resident Peter Vacarro first heard that the coronavirus had reached Volusia County in March 2020, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
The steadily growing number of cases, the waffling federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines at the beginning of the pandemic, and the lack of knowledge scared him,. As a senior citizen, he was among those most in danger from COVID-19. So he went into self-isolation.
Now, a year later, he still spends his days alone, with only his cat and a weekly cleaning service to keep him company. It’s for his own safety. But it doesn’t come without a price.
Training by the company Tidal Basin, emergency management consultants, is set to begin Wednesday for county staff. They will be on site tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., Pozzo said. After that we will receive our tablets.
Names on Sharecare s list will not be pulled for vaccination events before the third week in February, according to Pozzo, but after that a more streamlined distribution system should take shape. They re trying to get into a cadence, he said.
The state-run Florida Department of Health in Volusia County works with the county to coordinate distribution of vaccines allocated by the state.
Pozzo said those allocations will be finalized Thursdays or Friday, informing staff how many vaccine events are possible the following week.