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Publix gets 1 out of 4 Florida vaccines, which officials don’t track Allison Ross, Tampa Bay Times © CHRIS URSO/Times/Tampa Bay Times/TNS A Publix Super Markets store located along U.S. 19 in Tarpon Springs. State officials have shipped 70,000 COVID vaccine doses a week to Publix’s central distribution hub in Lakeland in Central Florida, without knowing exactly where the shots will go, a Miami Herald analysis of state vaccine distribution data from the past five weeks and interviews with state officials found. The grocery chain a major financial supporter of Gov. Ron DeSantis is the state’s single-largest vaccine supplier and receives nearly a quarter of Florida’s available doses without providing state officials a store-specific distribution plan ahead of time, according to Jared Moskowitz, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, the agency leading the vaccination campaign.

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