The vaccination site is open every day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Valencia College West Campus. Federal staff from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Defense are supporting state and local agencies in administering the vaccine.
Up to 2,000 vaccine doses will be administered at the vaccination site daily, according to a FEMA spokesperson. The site is also supplying 1,000 vaccines daily to two satellite sites in Orange County.
By midday Wednesday, the site had only administered 500 of those doses, according to officials. The site only administered 1,800 vaccine doses in total that first day. People were getting in and out of the center in about 45 minutes.
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Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings says the hotel where the Conservative Political Action Conference met did its very best to comply with COVID-19 restrictions.
Demings says the city has so far conducted more than 9,000 inspections and 99 percent of businesses have been in compliance.
The Hyatt Regency, site of the CPAC convention, had a safety plan in place. The mayor says it tried to make sure guests followed the rules.
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The Florida Department of Health reported 5,922 new coronavirus cases on Friday.
That brings the total number of cases in the state to close to 1,900,000 since the start of the pandemic.
According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and analyzed by NPR, the average daily caseload over the past week was around 6,080 cases.
That represents a one percent decrease in daily cases compared to last week and a 22 percent decrease compared with two weeks ago.