The mayor of Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava, ordered all entities that are vaccinating against coronavirus publish daily details of the process and the low inventory of vaccines in the county, the highest incidence in Florida, one of the states most affected by the pandemic in the United States.
The mayoress said the idea is for all residents over the age of 65 to have “equitable” access to vaccines in the face of claims of privilege in the wealthiest areas of the city.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, meanwhile, has reiterated that the state is “approaching” the one million vaccinated among those over the age of 65, again rectifying a statement from him on Friday that marked this milestone. .
In the meantime, cases and deaths continue to rise, with 9,535 infections and 132 deaths this Sunday for a total of 1,649,449 cases and 25,693 deaths since March 2020, according to the Florida Department of Health.
This state is the second with the most cases of the most contagious variant discovered in the UK, with 50 of the 195 in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). California is the first, with 72 cases.
A row of performances for the coronavirus test, in a park in Miami, Florida. Photo: AP
According to official figures, 1,379,502 people had been inoculated by Saturday with Pfizer and Moderna compounds, of which 155,314 had received both doses of the vaccines. Miami-Dade County is the hardest hit by the pandemic, with 4,730 deaths followed by far by neighboring Broward County, with 2,034 deaths, and Palm Beach, with 2,098 deaths.
More than 25 million cases in the US
The United States surpassed this Sunday, just over a year after it reported its first case of coronavirus, the 25 million infected and reached 417,538 deaths, which keeps it as the most affected country in the world.
“We are in a state of emergency and we need to ensure that vaccines are distributed equitably in all communities and that no one is left behind,” Levine Cava said in announcing the order for dose control. .
From now on, hospital systems, municipalities and all other entities that administer the vaccine they will need to post daily updates with the total number of vaccines they have received, The places where they are administered and the amount of vaccinations. The order also states that those who are providing the vaccines should not schedule appointments unless they have already received the doses and “have a good prognosis of how many people will be able to vaccinate.”
On Thursday, Florida health authorities ordered vaccine providers to require those who want to be vaccinated a residency test in the state to combat the so-called vaccination tourism that has outraged many Floridans. According to Governor DeSantis, 70% has been supplied to those over 65 years of age.
With numbers on the rise, the fledgling Joe Biden government is trying to exhaust vaccination to curb the spread of the pandemic. Statistics also revealed that since Biden took the oath of office last Wednesday, more than 500,000 Americans have contracted the virus.
The pandemic has become, along with immigration and economic recovery, one of the main tasks of the Democratic leader, who has promised to vaccinate 100 million people in its first 100 days at the head of the Executive.
Concern for vaccines
Officials in his administration on Sunday expressed concern about the supply of doses, at a time when local authorities have warned that they have little inventory or may have already exhausted it.
Alerts were turned on after that numerous appointments for vaccination would begin to be canceled in states like Texas, which is second below California in the infection count. California, which has already surpassed three million infected, slowed down the allocation of appointments, fearing they would not have enough doses.
The Centers for Control estimated until Sunday that more than 41.1 million doses have been distributed in the United States, of which only 21.8 million have been administered.
the newspaper The Washington Post he noted that on Saturday more than 1.3 million doses were administered in the country, the fifth day in a row that the record one million vaccines was surpassed.
Source: AFP, EFE and AP