Florida doctors will be able to directly order COVID-19 vaccines for children under five from the federal government, the White House said Friday after Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state would not order them.
While doctors in Florida won't be able to access a statewide stockpile immediately after final authorization comes through, the state health department says doctors could get the shots within several days or a week.
"Doctors can get it. Hospitals can get it. But there's not going to be any state programs that are going to be trying to get COVID jabs to infants and toddlers and newborns," DeSantis said at a news conference."That's not where we're gonna be utilizing our resources." Officials said that DeSantis' decision not to pre-order shots means there's no stockpile ready to go to be pushed out to the state's children's hospitals or doctors on Day 1 of availability.
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