SARASOTA – From a COVID-19 vaccination site in Brooksville, Governor, Ron DeSantis responded to recent controversy and criticism on how he picks where pop up sites will be in the state of Florida.
“There’s some people that are more upset at me for vaccinating seniors then they are for other governors whose policies have killed seniors, and that is a joke,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis, (R) Florida.
Governor DeSantis says more than 2 million seniors have gotten vaccinated and over 75 percent of doses have gone to our states eldest population
“We’re going to reporting fairly soon 50 percent of our massive 4.5 million senior population will have received a shot, and this is really really good progress,” said Gov. DeSantis.
And now that we’re past those winter storm delays, he thinks we’ll keep making more progress.
“You had them sitting, you couldn’t get into the warehouses, there was snow, there was all this stuff all now is now in that state so that 200 thousand from last week is here as well as the 200 thousand that we were expected to get on Tuesday anyways,” said Gov. DeSantis.
Governor DeSantis expects the state to receive 200,000 more Pfizer doses a week. And says the approval of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could help even more Floridians at pharmacies and doctors offices
“Floridians if all goes to plan, you should start seeing Johnson and Johnson sometime next week, that’s the plan, that’s what they’re going to do, they already have some produced and they’re going to send some to the states and we obviously are going to be ready willing and able to out that into use,” said Gov. DeSantis.
