Excitement at the Tampa Greyhound Track
They dubbed their van âthe vaccine trolley.â
Friends Elizabeth Krystyn and Kristen Showalter piled their kids, Evan Fueyo, 17, and Alina Showalter, 16, as well as a former exchange student, Kasia Pasternak 24, into the van early Monday so they could get in line for COVID-19 vaccine doses. They got in line at 5:10 a.m. and said they were the 20th car waiting.
Getting a vaccine just felt safe, they said. It was the right thing to do â and the chance toward returning to more normalcy. The crew brought cake pops with them in the van to celebrate afterwards.
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/ Tony and Nancy Kowalski, St. Petersburg residents, pose outside the vaccination tent at the Tampa Greyhound Track after getting their shots.
Adults 18 and over now qualify to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. Those age 16 and 17 can get the Pfizer vaccine with parental consent.
On Florida s first day of open vaccine eligibility, a line wrapped around the Tampa Greyhound Track vaccination site.
As people poured out of the vaccination tents smiling, the relief was palpable. Me and my family have been kind of living in a bubble and really quarantining hard for like 16 months. So it felt like hope for the future for the first time,” said Jasmine Keyes, of Land O’ Lakes.