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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that next week 173 state hospitals would receive 367,000 doses of Moderna’s new COVID-19 vaccine, including 24 operating in South Florida.
The distribution plan for the second vaccine, which received authorization for emergency use from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will include healthcare facilities that did not receive the first dose assignment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. , according to the governor’s office.
In South Florida, two dozen hospitals are expected to receive the Moderna vaccine, and they are as follows:
- Baptist Hospital of Miami
- Broward Health Coral Springs
- Broward Health Imperial Point
- Broward Health Medical Center
- Broward Health North
- Cleveland Clinic
- Coral Gables Hospital
- Doctors Hospital, Coral Gables
- Hialeah Hospital
- Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale
- Homestead Hospital
- Jackson Memorial Hospital
- Mercy Hospital, a campus of Plantation General Hospital
- Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Northwest Medical Center, Margate
- North Shore Medical Center, Miami
- Palmetto General Hospital
- Plantation General Hospital
- Select Specialty Hospital (not identified), Miami
- Select Specialty Hospital (not identified), Miami Lakes
- University Hospital and Medical Center, Tamarac
- University of Miami Hospital and Clinics, UHealth Tower
- West Gables Rehabilitation Hospital
- Westside Regional Medical Center
According to DeSantis, a greater number of hospitals can be included in the distribution of Moderna vaccine, compared to Pfizer, because this inoculant does not require ultra-cold storage.
Moderna’s vaccine doses include medical facilities in 43 Florida counties.
“As the vaccine supply increases in the coming weeks, we want to give it to our elderly residents, as well as those who may have significant underlying health problems,” said DeSantis.
“While we are encouraging residents to take (the vaccine), we will not require them to do so,” DeSantis said.
Meanwhile, DeSantis noted during a visit to Tampa General Hospital that in February 2021 the general population of Florida would have access to a vaccine.
“As we potentially get closer to February, we could find ourselves in a situation where there will be a vaccine for people [del estado] regardless of circumstances, health risks or age. Probably not before that and maybe not quite at that point, but that’s very possible, ”DeSantis said.
Johnson & Johnson is also expected to seek clearance in January for another coronavirus vaccine.
The state is offering updates on the COVID-19 vaccine by text message. Receive updates via text message by texting FLCOVID19 to 888777.
Vaccination is free. The national authority Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said: “They are purchased with taxpayer dollars and will be applied to everyone at no cost.”
It is worth remembering that the application of the vaccine does not mean the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The vaccine is a preparation intended to generate immunity against a disease, so it prevents the development of the virus, but not necessarily contagion,” said Dr. Hugo Lara, a doctor specializing in infectious diseases.
In other words, the vaccine prevents the virus from growing and doing harm, but it does not prevent it from entering your body and transmitting it to another person who may not be vaccinated and would do harm.
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