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The Lake County Health Department is offering the Pfizer vaccine to students 16 and older along with anyone else who is eligible at Eustis High from 3 to 6 Monday afternoon.
It is the next step in the county effort now that about 80 percent of residents 65 and older have been vaccinated.
Administrator Aaron Kissler says the department will keep working at it but some senior citizens won’t want the vaccine. Getting the wider community immunized actually protects those vaccine-hesitant seniors.
Lake officials: 70% of seniors vaccinated
Cindy Peterson
LEESBURG Seventy percent of seniors ages 65 and older have been vaccinated against COVID-19, Lake County officials announced Monday at a press conference.
Officials also noted a downward trend in coronavirus cases around 9% of those tested are proving positive, one of the lowest rates in the state.
This announcement came the same day Florida lowered the eligible vaccination age from 65 to 60 and older.
“It has been one year that the county has been in a local state of emergency for COVID,” Thomas Carpenter, Director of the Office of Emergency Management for Lake County, said. “Looking back a year ago today, we didn’t know what to expect but once vaccines got here, we saw the light at the end of the tunnel. We’ve vaccinated 70 percent of our 65 and older and the reason we’ve been able to do that is a fantastic partnership between the Department of Health who have led the way, the county, our municipa
Teachers in Lake County line up for coronavirus vaccine
District has 2,600 employees 50 and older
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Teachers and school staff 50 and older are getting their vaccines in Lake County, thanks to a partnership between the Lake County school district and the Florida Department of Health in Lake County.
Aaron Kissler, the Health Officer for the FDOH in Lake County, said they are following the governor’s executive order, meaning school staff 50 years old and up can sign up for a vaccine at their site off of Republic Drive.
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“We have about 2,600 employees that are eligible based on the age grouping, and I know yesterday we did several hundred, so (of) those eligible we’re hoping that everybody will come and take advantage of the opportunity,” Lake County Schools superintendent Diane Kornegay said Thursday.
COVID-19 vaccine site at Lake County Amazon center reaches capacity
By Jessica Albert
Vaccine distribution site at Amazon in Groveland
A new COVID-19 vaccine site at an Amazon distribution center in Groveland reached capacity before opening on Wednesday.
GROVELAND, Fla. - A new COVID-19 vaccine site at an Amazon distribution center in Groveland reached capacity before opening on Wednesday.
Dozens and dozens of cars lined up early for the first-come, first-served COVID-19 vaccination event.
When the site opened at 8 a.m., police allowed the first 200 cars to come in before the site reached capacity.
Officials said the drive-thru event is at the new Amazon distribution site in Groveland on Wednesday morning started at 8 a.m.