1 month ago Share Those selected from the standby pool can choose to be vaccinated Wednesday, Thursday or Friday at Tom Bennett Park in Bradenton.
Another 4,500 seniors will receive their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Manatee County on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Tom Bennett Park in East County.
Manatee County 311 callers will begin scheduling appointments with seniors who are registered in the county s Vaccination Standby Pool on Monday, according to a county press release. Manatee County operators will be calling randomly selected seniors from the phone number 742-4300 to book appointments.
If a selected recipient misses the first call, the county will call once more at a later time. If the county calls twice with no response, that would-be recipient s name will be placed back in the standby pool. The county asked that people don t call 311 to ask if they ve been selected.
Governor Ron DeSantis commended Manatee County s efforts to deliver COVID-19 vaccinations to seniors on a visit to Tom Bennett Park in Bradenton on Thursday. Today we re here to highlight the County-run vaccination site at Bennett Par, DeSantis was quoted as saying in a Manatee County release. Here what you see is a very well run, very efficient operation. When vaccinations were first distributed at the end of December, Manatee County had already prepared to provide the vaccination in the community. Tonight they ll be launching an online portal that s a smart way to do it, to decompress the stress on the online system.
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