On Monday, March 15th, those of us 60 years of age and older can get the vaccine in Florida

[steve2470]

https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/orders/2021/EO_21-62.pdf

Section 1. Effective March 15, 2021 , Executive Order 20-315, as amended by Executive
Orders 21-46 and 21-47, is amended to include the following:

During this first phase of vaccine administration, all providers administering any COVID-19 vaccine shall only vaccinate the following populations:

• Long-term care facility residents and staff;

• Persons 60 years of age and older;

• Health care personnel with direct patient contact;

• K-12 school employees 50 years of age and older;

• Sworn law enforcement officers 50 years of age and older; and

• Firefighters 50 years of age and older.

(bolding mine)

The text above is copied from the executive order from DeSantis.

[keithsw]

1. i hope to get it

Soon. Wife and I are 64 and have had Covid once already. And our neighbor and friend died the day after Christmas from it. She was 55 and a Registered Nurse

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Two important questions to ask.

How many people are in those groups altogether, and how many vaccines will be available tomorrow? I'm going to guess there will be several million fewer vaccines for a while than people eligible.

[hay rick]

3. Nobody knows exactly how many shots will be available.

My wife and I are 75. We both got our first Moderna shots through Publix, her on Friday and me the week before. Publix was the only game in town in our county when the vaccinations started. We went on their website M, W, F at 7 am for weeks without success. Between us we spent more than 30 hours "waiting in line" watching our computer screens refresh every 60 seconds.

Meanwhile, more people were being removed from the queue and more vaccines were arriving. By the time we got through to be scheduled I was reading that more than 50% of people in the over-65 group had already received a shot. As soon as we got scheduled with Publix we started getting calls to schedule a shot from our county Department of Health where we were also signed up. Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, and other pharmacies are also starting to give shots.

I think the situation is improving rapidly and I hope you are able to get scheduled promptly

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Exactly. I'm in New Mexico. 72 years old. Had a serious heart attack in December.

I'm registered through our state Department of Health, and they are completely inscrutable, other than sending me emails telling me NOT to try to go around their system to get a shot, but if I do, please let them know. This is supposedly one of the top two or three states at getting the vaccine out, and I cannot figure out why I haven't gotten one. And if this state is one of the best, god help those in the bad states.

There was a huge article in today's Santa Fe New Mexican profiling any number of seniors who likewise can't get the vaccine, and the DOH isn't giving any of us a clue as to when it might happen.

So here's my point: If the eligibility is opened up to millions more, won't that make things worse? Won't the jockeying for position get brutal?

My time is more important than to spend 30 hours on line refreshing a computer screen to try to get a vaccine. I am able to stay home. My overall health is excellent. I'm not sure if that heart attack really makes me more vulnerable to a bad Covid outcome than before it happened. It's just that I keep on seeing all these stories of others, many younger than I am, or willing to spend hours and hours in front of the computer, getting in line. Grrrr. If this were being done right, we'd all know exactly where we are in line and we'd each get the vaccine when we should.

Maybe by August, when everyone who wants the vaccine has gotten it, I'll have finally gotten over my irritation. I will also add that putting smokers ahead of someone like me is crap. Remind me again how smokers only recently (1964) learned that smoking is bad for them. Personally, I'd put them at the very back of the line, after the 16 year old non smokers.

[soryang]

5. Signed someone up in 60-64 age group this am

on the Publix website. They no longer list the true number of doses available in each county. They list it by percentage only. They also have given priority to teachers, bus drivers, day care workers, etc., over other categories under federal directive.

So I had to wait until the first fifty percent of doses went to these people before booking was opened up to others. I barely made it, getting the last appointment on the second day. Once you open the page don't refresh, it will refresh automatically every 60 seconds until you get the "book now button for an appointment. fwiw.

https://www.publix.com/covid-vaccine/booknow

most counties are fully booked for today

[Dreampuff]

6. Absolutely!

Let us know how things work out for you and how easily you can get an appointment. I know many of us 65 and over struggled for several weeks. At least now we are getting a lot of weekly vaccines and there are many more places that are offering them. Also many more people on the qualification list.