Orange County offers prior registration for COVID-19 vaccine appointments

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County allows Florida residents to pre-register for online coronavirus vaccine appointments online to make registrations faster when shots are available.

The dating portal for the Orange County Convention Center site opened Friday (January 29) at 8 a.m. with several new appointments for the shots, but closed less than an hour later.

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People must create a CDR Health account to test or schedule an appointment with the vaccine. Once a person is registered, they will still have to schedule their appointment, said Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings.

Meanwhile, staff at four Orange County community centers are on hand to help residents who do not have a computer and / or smart device and may need help registering.

Staff at the Holden Heights, Pine Hills, East Orange and Taft community centers will be available Friday to help seniors register for the vaccine. There will also be Spanish-speaking staff.

Dr. Raul Pino, health officer at the Orange County Florida Department of Health, said it is difficult to determine exactly how many appointments the county will offer per week based on vaccine availability, but estimated approximately 8,000 for the week. next.

“We have a different number of appointments every day, so we might add 200 to 300 in a day,” Pino said. “So I can’t tell you how many a day, but the last time we opened it, which was similar to the next few weeks, we added about 8,000 appointments this week. So the figure should be very close. at just over 8,000 “.

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The county provides vaccine updates via text if people send an OCFLCOVID text message to 888777.