Miami-Dade mayor says county-run COVID dating site

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

The race is underway for South Floridians to be vaccinated. On Sunday, Hard Rock Stadium vaccinated 1,200 people.

Researchers at the University of Miami are actively looking for varying cases by observing the virus in patients at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

With Floridians struggling to make appointments since vaccine distribution began, the state hopes to make things easier with a centralized website: myvaccine.fl.gov.

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

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“The most important issue is supply,” Levine Cava said. “We will allow people to register only once and we will leave this list as the supply becomes available, but we will not book appointments until we get the assignment each week.”

The place where people can sign up for an appointment is vaccines.nomihealth.com/mdc.

“I created the centralized information site miamidade.gov/vaccine, also available in Spanish and Creole, and now we have ordered all dispensation sites to provide us with the information they have. The state does its thing and when the federal government is involved, you know they will do their thing, and the important thing is that the public needs a centralized source of information so they don’t have the anxiety of constantly hunting, ”he said.

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

Although blacks and Hispanics are being disproportionately affected by COVID-19, many of these communities do not receive vaccines.

Lack of access and mistrust are some of the reasons why the infectious disease expert, Dr. Hansel Tookes, blame this phenomenon.

“There is a deep mistrust of the vaccine in minority communities and Tuskegee is an example of harm, but what I am telling my patients is that we cannot allow the harm of what happened in Tuskegee to harm us today in 2021,” he said. 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 in which a disease progressed without treatment.

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The degree of protection of vaccines against the UK strain is also being investigated locally. The most transmissible strain in the UK is potentially more dangerous.

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

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SEE: This week in South Florida: Dr. Hansel Tookes

SEE: This week in South Florida: Daniella Levine Cava