BREVARD COUNTY. Fla. — OMNI Healthcare has tested more than 50,000 patients for COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Now, the Brevard County health care group is preparing to administer the vaccine.
Dr. Craig Deligdish with OMNI Healthcare says those plans have had their challenges.
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“Obviously we’ve never done anything like this before in our state, in our country. Every state was given the opportunity to distribute their allotment as they saw fit,” Deligdish said.
The Pfizer vaccine must be stored at extremely cold temperatures, which factored into which hospitals would receive the first round of vaccines.
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“We’ve been in touch with both the DOH, our local DOH, Florida DOH in Tallahassee as well as the agency for health care administration regarding the plan to distribute the Moderna vaccine next week,” Dr. Deligdish said.
He says that the Moderna vaccine does not have the same storage requirements as the Pfizer vaccine, and will be easier to distribute.
Deligdish says OMNI could have the vaccine available as early as January, but that largely depends on how much vaccine is made available.