Report: Florida Is Botching Its COVID Vaccine Rollout

The Daily Beast reports:

As states loosely align their own vaccine-distribution policies with broad guidance from the CDC, four highly vulnerable groups are competing for the first batches of vaccine: frontline health workers, elderly nursing home residents, workers in essential industries, and people of color.

The problem: Florida health officials under the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis are putting them in the wrong order, experts said. DeSantis has repeatedly demonstrated a poor understanding of the basic science of a viral pandemic and vaccines. He even appeared to endorse a fringe proposal that people skip the second dose of Pfizer’s two-dose vaccine

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