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'Real-life monopoly.' Eligible residents turned away at Miami-Dade vaccine sites amid chaos


‘Real-life monopoly.’ Eligible residents turned away at Miami-Dade vaccine sites amid chaos
Bianca Padró Ocasio, Miami Herald
© Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS
On Saturday, as chaos ensued at a South Florida vaccine site, 494 people were vaccinated at the site, just slightly under the 500 daily allocation.
It took more than five hours of waiting in the sun with her 6-month-old baby and being rejected by five different staffers at Florida City’s federal vaccination site for Yanira Vázquez to finally get her COVID-19 shot.
Vázquez, who is a caregiver for a patient with Down syndrome, said she was turned away because the note she had from her patient’s pediatrician confirming her eligibility for a vaccine was on her phone and it was not printed. According to a Miami Herald reporter who witnessed it, Vázquez was screamed at by at least one volunteer at the site. ....

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