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COVID-19 vaccine appointments to open Wednesday morning in Duval County

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Pauline Rolle, the Interim Director for the Florida Department of Health in Duval County, announced that non-hospital medical providers and people 65 and older can start getting vaccines on Monday.

Rolle told Jacksonville’s Morning News that the FDOH in Duval County plans on distributing COVID-19 vaccines at the Prime Osborn Center. Rolle said that more information on the appointments and the vaccines can be found here starting Wednesday.

“And so we’re looking at vaccinating more of our medical care providers in the community. As you may know, there are medical care providers who are not associated with hospitals and so they’ve had some difficulty getting the vaccines. Well, there there’s good news. Some of the hospitals have stepped up to try and partner with us to provide vaccines in the community and we will also be vaccinating those providers and, of course, are 65 years old and up customers in our community will be vaccinated as well,” Rolle said.

Appointments will open up Wednesday morning. They are hoping to give out one to two thousand vaccines a day, depending on the demand. So far, the Department of Health has provided over 9,000 vaccines.

“We’re looking to have appointments made for the vaccine so we don’t have huge crowds so we can continue to have full social distance and also so they’re not standing in line for eight hours,” Rolle said.

Right now, JFRD is distributing coronavirus vaccines to their employees this week at the Center.

There is a plan to distribute vaccines in other areas of the community when more supplies become available.

“The goal is to offer vaccines close to you. We recognize that air transportation issues for folks. And so we we’ve had discussions with Duval County Public Schools and they’ve offered their school gyms to set up vaccination sites. And so those will be a lot of our community sites that we will set up,” Rolle said.


Hannah Lee

Hannah Lee

Hannah Lee is a General Assignment Reporter for 104.5 WOKV.

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