Publix makes its own vaccine distribution plan. Officials don't know where shots will go (Florida)

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Miami Herald
@MiamiHerald
Publix — a big financial supporter of Gov. Ron DeSantis — has been getting 70,000 vaccine doses a week shipped to its hub in Lakeland.

Data show it’s the state’s single-largest vaccine supplier.

So where are all those shots going? 🧵

Publix makes its own vaccine distribution plan. Officials don’t know where shots will go
State officials have shipped 70,000 COVID vaccine doses a week to Publix’s central distribution hub in Lakeland in Central Florida, without knowing exactly where the shots will end up, or even which...
miamiherald.com
9:30 AM · Mar 2, 2021

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article249508210.html


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[abqtommy]

1. My long-time friend in Georgia has already gotten her vaccine at a Publix there. Seems

to me that's a good thing.

[rockfordfile]

10. They gave money to the un-American DeSantis to have the vaccine locations

Corruption.

Lets see Publix support a Democratic Governor.

[JennyMominFL]

2. My husband

My hubby is gettimg his vaccine at Publix tomorrow. It looked like all of the Publix in orange county are doing them

[ornotna]

3. They set up a table at my local publix

And were signing up who ever wanted to.

[sop]

4. There must be a closely-guarded secret for getting onto the Publix site to register for the vaccine.

After trying dozens of times over several weeks, and watching the page "refresh" hundreds of times, I would finally be told the sign-up page was "fully booked."

[JennyMominFL]

5. 1st try

You are making me feel guilty that i got in on the first try on Monday. I heard they opened uo a lot more spots yesterday than they had been doing and that will continue

[rzemanfl]

6. Have you noticed they never start on time? I think that may have something to do with it.

It may be as simple as "click the button at exactly 7:02." Thank goodness we've both received our first shots from the Health Department and no longer have to play that game.

[JennyMominFL]

7. I happened

to go to the website just for the heck of it ar around 7.15. I waited about 45 minutes.

[rzemanfl]

8. Whenever we got on, the nearby locations were fully booked and the available

ones were a long way off. I know a person who traveled 300+ miles roundtrip for each shot.

[soryang]

9. when they open the application process at the publix webpage

you can briefly see how many doses are distributed by county for just the schedule they are booking at that time. once the appointments are booked the data disappears. the public doesn't know ahead of time beyond that brief window.

looks like the short term booking window will open at 700 am EST tomorrow.

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