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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville will begin administering second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to two centers for the elderly starting Monday morning as the first public vaccine recipients at the statewide Prime Osborn Convention Center will begin returning for a second shot.
Between the three sites, about 2,000 people are expected to receive their second doses each day this week. It is almost double the average number of people in Jacksonville who receive their first dose each day because supplies remain limited.
Monday marks 21 days after the Lane Wiley Senior Center and Mandarin Senior Center vaccination sites began administering the Pfizer vaccine to people 65 and older and health care workers. People who received their first dose at one of the two senior centers should return to this site to make their second dose 21 days after the first start. For example, if you received your first vaccine at a Jacksonville Center for the Elderly on January 11, you should return on February 1 at a time based on the first letter of your last name.
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Here is the breakdown:
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If your last name starts with A, B, C or D, come to the place between 9 am and 10 am
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If your last name starts with E, F, G or H, go to the place between 10am and 11am
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If your last name starts with I, J, K or L, come to the place between 11 am and 12 noon
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If your last name starts with M, N, O, or P, go to the site between 12 and 1 p.m.
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If your last name starts with Q, R, S or T, come to the site between 1pm and 2pm
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If your last name starts with U, V or W, go to the place between 2pm and 3pm
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If your last name starts with X, Y or Z, visit the site between 3pm and 4pm
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Those who cannot come at the appointed time are asked to come to the place between 4 and 5 p.m. The places will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Patients will receive a reminder call the day before the date of their second dose.
Those who already had the first dose at the centers for the elderly are asked to bring the ID and registration card of the shot they received when they received the first shot.
To save time, the city also asks those receiving their second dose to bring a complete COVID-19 vaccination verification and consent form, which can be found here. Printed forms will also be available at senior centers.
The city said the second doses will be administered at the two senior centers until Feb. 12.
Both centers of the center for the elderly stopped giving the first doses on January 21 after the supply of the city was exhausted.
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The first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are only given in Jacksonville at the state vaccination site at Regency Square Mall to people 65 and older and health care workers.
News4Jax was at the Mandarin Senior Center on Friday when a few hundred people received their second shot in what Mayor Lenny Curry described as a “soft throw”.
“What we have shown at the city level (whether by distributing stimulus controls, if it is testing and now vaccine distribution) is that we do it intelligently, responsibly and efficiently, but we also adapt,” dir Curry. . “We have adapted here. We changed the second round to be based on the first letter of the last name compared to the anniversary, and we think it will be an improvement on the previous distribution, but I would say that if you get the first shot, you should get the second . Please get it. Don’t let it happen when you need it. “
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Curry said right now there is no timeline in which Jacksonville will receive more doses. The city has no access to supplies.
Curry said the federal government is currently centralizing the distribution of the first doses at Regency Square Mall. Once more doses arrive, the city can potentially distribute and expand.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that the state is expected to receive 307,000 first doses from the federal government this week.
On January 25, the Florida Department of Health in Duval County began administering second doses to people who received the vaccine 28 days earlier at the Prime Osborn Convention Center vaccination site. Most of those who were vaccinated in the early days were employees of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department and those working in the city of Jacksonville, so last week they fired a second shot.
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Monday will mark 28 days after the first doses of the Modern vaccine began to be administered to members of the public population aged 65 and over and to health workers at the convention center.
Like the centers for the elderly, the vaccination site at the convention center no longer provides the first doses of the vaccine, but if you have the first vaccine at the convention center, return 28 days later at the same time you have it. the first appointment at the convention. center to receive the second dose of the Modern vaccine.
For example, if your first dose was at 2pm on January 4th, you will return to Prime Osborn to take your second dose at 2pm on February 1st. (The date of your second dose is on the back of your CDC vaccination record card when the first shot was received.)
Monica Sharp is one of the people scheduled to get her second dose at the convention center on Monday.
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“I’m 69 and I’m active, but, you know, I’ve avoided activity for the last year, so I’m looking forward to achieving that,” Sharp told News4Jax on Sunday.
Sharp said the process of getting his first dose was a challenge, but he understands it is a new challenge for everyone.
“People are desperate to get it. I think most people are and are afraid of receiving COVID, ”he said. “I was definitely glad that a vaccine came out and that I could get it. I feel very lucky. “
Data from the Florida Department of Health show that nearly 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been given to the state since Saturday. Although 1,364,416 of these shots were first doses and 314,528 were second doses, some days last week as the supply of vaccines to the state has declined, the number of second doses began to exceed number of initial shots.
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