With vaccine shipment boost, DeSantis begins opening mass inoculation sites

Published February 2, 2021 4:00pm ET



Florida will receive a 40,000-dose boost in its weekly allocation of COVID-19 vaccines, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday while announcing plans to reopen testing sites as drive-thru inoculation centers and expand other distribution programs statewide.

During a news conference at a closed mass testing site in The Villages to be reopened Thursday as a drive-thru vaccination clinic that will inoculate up to 4,000 weekly, DeSantis said Florida will receive 307,000 shots weekly beginning this week, up from 266,000.

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