Holiday Park’s COVID-19 vaccine website welcomes elderly people without an appointment

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida. – The demand for the COVID-19 vaccine is so high that by 2 am on Thursday there were already drivers in line at the Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale.

For now, Holiday Park is vaccinating people aged 65 and over on a first-come, first-served basis, so it has forced them to close and reopen during the day to avoid crowding.

“We don’t want to create a danger to traffic on US-1, so we close when we’re full and when we open it, we’ll let more people in,” said Chris Lagerbloom, city manager for Fort Lauderdale.

Eventually, public health officials plan to transform the Holiday Park location into an appointment only. The decision not to require consultations stems from the inability of Broward residents to make appointments online.

The Holiday Park website is open from 8 am to 4 pm, from Tuesday to Saturday. But on Thursday, there were so many people that they were forced to temporarily close at 1pm.

Dave Altneu made the cut.

“At the moment, we are in good shape as soon as we achieve this,” said Altneu. He will still have to receive a second injection of the vaccine to have 95% protection.

Drivers with labels from other states also lined up on the Fort Lauderdale website because Governor Ron DeSantis is not requiring proof of residence to receive the vaccine in Florida.

“We don’t really discriminate against who gets the vaccines,” said Lagerbloom.

The average waiting time for those who made the cut was two hours.

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