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Staff at Florida prisons have started asking inmates to decide if they would accept a COVID-19 vaccine, but are providing little or no information to help prisoners make that potentially life-saving decision, advocates say. There's still no public plan for getting the vaccine to prisoners or staff.
The Miami Herald
Zinzi Bailey looks at Miami-Dade s earliest wave of COVID-19 vaccinations and sees an unaddressed question. Why did so many paramedics, firefighters and hospital workers pass up a chance to get a shot?
Large numbers of Miami-Dade hospital workers, firefighters and paramedics who were offered early vaccinations for COVID-19 declined, and county leaders haven t tried to figure out why.
Bailey, a research professor at the University of Miami who studies health inequities, said that s a big problem, now and into the future. There is a community and a culture around firefighters, healthcare workers, she said. If we re not delving into that, we re missing a key opportunity for the spread of information around this vaccine and disrupting some false visions of what that s about.
Walgreens rolls out COVID-19 shot at Florida nursing homes
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The Food and Drug Administration has authorized emergency use of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
TALLAHASSEE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Walgreens’ chief medical officer are announcing that Florida nursing homes are among the first in the country where residents will be vaccinated against COVID-19 through a federal government partnership with drugstore chains.
The company said it selected 10 nursing homes in Florida, Ohio and Connecticut to roll out the effort Friday. Next week, Walgreens will ramp up visits to 800 long-term care facilities in 12 states.
The plan is for the pharmacy to eventually visit 35,000 facilities and vaccinate 3 million residents. CVS and other companies are also part of the partnership to deliver shots at nursing homes and assisted living facilities.