Miami-Dade Mayor says launch of county-run COVID nomination site

MIAMI – According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are now 125 cases of the B117 strain, also known as the UK variant. This variant was detected in Florida, with more than half of the cases in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

The race for South Florida to be vaccinated has begun. On Sunday, Hard Rock Stadium vaccinated 1,200 people.

Researchers at the University of Miami are actively looking for variant cases, looking at the virus in patients at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

With Floridians having trouble scheduling appointments since the vaccine was delivered, the state hopes to make things easier with a centralized website: myvaccine.fl.gov.

Meanwhile, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said on Sunday this week in South Florida that the county will also reveal a similar registration site this week.

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“The biggest problem is the supply,” said Levine Cava. “We will allow people to subscribe only once and remove it from the list when the supply becomes available, but we will not make appointments until we receive our allocation each week.”

The website where people can sign up for a consultation is vaccines.nomihealth.com/mdc.

“I created the centralized information site miamidade.gov/vaccine, also available in Spanish and Creole, and now we order all the layoff sites to provide us with the information they have. The state is doing what it has to do, and when the federal government gets involved you know it is going to do what it is, and the important thing is that the public needs to have a centralized source of information in order not to have the anxiety of hunting constantly ” , Levine Cava said.

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The demand for vaccines is currently greater than the supply available.

Despite the fact that blacks and Hispanics are being disproportionately affected by COVID-19, many in these communities are not receiving vaccines.

Lack of access and mistrust are among the reasons why infectious disease specialist, Dr. Hansel Tookes, blames this phenomenon.

“There is a deep distrust of the vaccine in minority communities and Tuskegee is an example of evil, but what I say to my patients is that we cannot allow the evil of what happened in Tuskegee to harm us today in 2021,” Dr. Tookes said Sunday this week in South Florida.

This skepticism among the community is nothing new. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment in the 1930s is just one example where a disease has progressed without treatment.

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The effectiveness of protecting vaccines against the UK strain is also being researched locally. The most transmissible British strain is potentially more dangerous.

“(This) variant is not only more contagious, but also perhaps more serious,” said FIU infectious disease specialist Aileen Marty earlier this weekend.

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