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Just watched the Governor's press conference held in Brownwood. More vaccines allocated to The Villages, GMR mass vaccination site will reopen on Thursday and will become a permanent location. He did give the site to register but didn't address those that registered previously or if you need to re-register but looks like we will have an increase in allocation.

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The county health department did a well organized job when I went for my first shot. GMR cancelled me due to lack of vaccine and the county picked up where GMR left off. Why not leave well enough alone and let the county continue to do it?

Remaining positive (trust) but verify (when actually happening).

By now any half intelligent person at GMR should be able to come up with frequently asked questions based on first registration to being put on hold to resurrecting the process to start over/re-register, etc......we shall see!

Lets hope this is true

Not sure the County has the data resources to handle mass registrations and vaccinations. As I understood it, the County was only picking up those that had a confirmed appointment (about 1000) when GMR stopped. Prior to that GMR had a great process and implementation according to our neighbors that received their first dose. Since GMR needed about 800 per day to cover expenses I assume the Governor has given the assurances that brings them back.

THE VILLAGES — Gov. Ron DeSantis made another stop in The Villages on Monday, announcing that the Sumter County COVID-19 vaccination site that closed last month would reopen on Thursday.

DeSantis visited the site, run by Global Medical Response, on Jan. 12. Four days later, it closed, citing a shortage in vaccine supplies.

DeSantis said that the permanent drive-thru site would be allocated an initial 4,000 vaccines weekly, but the state could potentially up that number.

"It's all contingent upon the supply that's being sent to the states by the federal government," DeSantis said at a press conference held at the Center for Advanced Healthcare at Brownwood. "But this was a very well-run site. I was able to be here. I spoke with a number of the seniors. They were very happy with how it went. And so when you know that something works, you want to continue to see that go."

Think we need to re-register if we have not had our first shot?

Here is an article about the return of GMR.

Drive-thru vaccination site in The Villages to open back up

This is the email I received when GMR stopped, I am assuming this will be their policy going forward (just my opinion).

Due to unforeseen circumstances surrounding the national vaccine supply, we are temporarily suspending the operation of the mass vaccination site in Sumter County. Here’s what you need to know:

If you received an appointment for your second dose, your appointment will remain as scheduled until further notice. If we do not receive the necessary doses, we will reschedule your second vaccination appointment.

All 7,500 scheduled appointments for first doses, including those who received scheduling codes but have not yet scheduled, have been placed on hold until we receive adequate supply of the vaccine.

If you have registered but have not yet received a scheduling code, you will remain waitlisted in the order received. Rest assured, you will not lose your place on our registry.

We will continue to process registrations for vaccines and place individuals on the waitlist to adequately assess demand and report those totals to the Florida Department of Health.

If we have already received our first shot, I guess we just show up on the appointed day at Wildwood Community Center for our second.

No notification received.
Unable to contact Sumter County Health Dept

Thanks for passing on the news.:coolsmiley:

Because they are trying to get the vaccines out as fast as possible. Everyone is complaining they cant get an appt. Its logical they would add an additional avenue to get the shot. Itll cut down on all the impatient people plus get us all vaccinated sooner

DO NOT REGISTER AGAIN ON SAFERESTART OR YOU WILL GO TO THE END OF THE LINE - if you have already registered they will contact you in the order of date/time you registered. A 2nd registration throws off the system and cancels your 1st one.

I spoke with the Sumter County Health Dept yesterday at the Wildwood Community Center yesterday. They are giving 2nd shots there but NOT for the ones where the first shot was given by GMR. Wildwood is doing only 2nd shots for ONLY those people that had the first shots done by the Sumter County Department. When I was there they were turning away persons who had their 1st shot by GMR.
GMR gave us a card and date for the 2nd shot but it did not list a time so I don't know about how that will be done.
I was happy to hear on the radio that GMR will be back and it will be permanent and at the same Buffalo Ridge site.

I am glad I am not running this thing. People are in a panic. People, including me, expect,demand perfect.

I do have a LEGITIMATE pre-existing condition. A bit tired of waking up at 5:30 am to hope to get an appointment. I would probably do the same but healthy people are taking shots that are supposed to go to people with pre-existing conditions.

No matter what happens, people will complain.

And the source of the above is.....

If you look at your email confirmation with GMR it gives you the date and time of the second shot. Even though the card only gives you the date.

Yes people will complain, but they would complain a lot less if it had been run efficiently from the beginning. The flu shot comes out of your pharmacy, commonsense tells you they could have done the same with the covid vaccines.

The problem with your suggestion is most pharmacies cannot handle the cold temps the two vaccines require.

I fully understand the problems with storing the vaccine that needs very cold temps, but other States are doing it very well. West Va for instance has local family owned pharmacies handling the vaccine and getting it out to rural areas how do you think they are doing it?

I am hoping the announcement that the new Admin is going to start distributing it to individual pharmacies will help, this is supposed to start this coming eek on the 11 February. We can only hope this will help, until then I guess it is mask up and cross your fingers.

One freezer for mass dose, rural areas. Doses for the day are delivered to each pharmacy, no need for freezer at site. It already in effect and working in many areas. Hospitals with multiple sites are doing the same, one freezer, then using internal delivery person for doses that day.

This system has been in use for transport of cadaver implants for as long as I can remember.

Guess we won't have to worry about our place in line for the vaccinations in The Villages. I used six open browsers today to get an invite on the Publix site. When I finally got on, all the close spots were taken so I managed to get my wife a spot in Deltona and when they allowed me to try a second spot, I got one at the same place for two hours later....tomorrow. I was going to wait for the VA, but just wanted to see if Publix would give me another spot so I took it when offered. We have family coming down next month to visit and they have all had the virus and survived, so I had to make sure that the wife had her shot. She is really concerned about how big the needle is. I have no idea why they are using such large needles, but I am not a medical person. I have given plenty of shots though, and give one to her every month and the needle is very small. Maybe someone on here knows why the vaccination needle is so large? And thick as well as long. No wonder folks are sore when they do it. The idea is usually to relax your arm as much as possible before they insert the needle and it won't hurt as much.

Good grief, where did you hear the needles were really big? I received my first dose with a tiny little needle that I didn’t even feel the injection. Relax your arm at your side and let them do their work.

The injection was painless for me. The pain at the injection site came a bit later and persisted for about four days. A week after the injection, I developed redness which lasted just under a week.

where exactly is the drive up site? I am new to The Villages.

I noticed that today, the Publix site only had 143 appointments for Marion County. Last Friday, they had 1,790. I wonder why? I was able to book 3 appointments for friends, but they were in Volusia County.

The needles used on every video on TV shows them using a needle that should be used on a horse. About two inches long. Doesn't bother me but put a scare into the wife. The needles also appear to be thick. Glad to hear that in reality, the needles are normal. She gets a shot every month so this should be old hat to her.

Hello! I wonder if someone could give me some advice. My dad lives in the Villages and registered for the vaccine through GMR. They have sent him a 5 digit code a couple of times on his phone. Could someone who has done this tell me what that code is for?

The website has 2 Steps. Step 1 to register and Step 2 to make an appointment. I think the Step 1 code has 5 digits and the Step 2 code has 6 digits. So, I don't think you can actually make an appointment with a 5 digit code. You can only do Step 1, which is to use the 5 digit code to register and get on the waiting list.

I received first dose of Moderna yesterday at the Sumter DOH site. My appointment was made by the DOH from the list set up by GMR. I was one of the very next people appointed to get a vaccine through GMR when they ran out of vaccine doses. So Sumter DOH did pick up right where GMR had stopped. We just now received the opportunity from GMR for my wife to sign up for her first dose. She was on the GMR appointment list ( not the registration list) just a day or two after my original appointment with GMR. She is now appointed with GMR again, but for tomorrow and March 4. So they are apparently going in order of original registration.

If you don't mind, could you tell me what your original date was for the first dose? My wife was scheduled for Jan. 21, and I was Jan 23rd. I helped friends register 3 hours after we did, and we were scheduled 4 and 6 days later than them, so I don't have much confidence in the accuracy of their list

My original appointment with GMR for first dose was Jan 19. Wife received e-mail mid- afternoon with code to make her first appointment.. When she made it, the return e-mail also gave her the date and time for the second dose. Just like the first time before doses ran out. She did not re- register . We assume that GMR just picked up where DOH left off.

Thank you, it's very appreciated

I to had an appointment on Jan 22, that was cancelled when they ran out of vaccine.
Received an email today with an appointment code.....have appointment tomorrow.
Looks like they are doing what they said they would do.😎

I was scheduled for my first vaccine on January 25th,, than was canceled. Got an email today with a new code to set up an appointment. I am scheduled for tomorrow to get my first injection. It seems like they are following through on what they promised.

They use a very small, 21 ga or smaller needles. Similar to a diabetic syringe. You don't feel it. Usually no blood at the injection site.

Likely what you noticed in the video is the safety sheth over the needle


https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-1...in-summary.pdf

The code is used to actually book the appointment.

If half TV residents get the shot that would be around 70,000.
For good measuring and guessing or out guessing the second guessers throw in another 30,000 for visitors, and all other....
Hence 100,000 folks to vaccinate.
At 1000 per day all done by the end of April.
There should be more than 1000 per day so sometime during the next 90 days all the hub bub and racing to get an appointment will be over.

On a list?
Most of us are.
You could be next....many have posted that they were and are lucky.
Those who are number 29,001 or 39,001 just have to sit and wait.

We have put in a year of waiting....another 1-90 days...not a problem!!

The VA in Gainesville has been doing
 

shots for 2 weeks got mine Thursday had an appointment but they were taking all bets by afternoon counting the 15 minute break after shot I was there 25 minutes

Thank you! He tells me he is already registered. Is the "Step 1" I see on the site something that happens after you have registered? I'm confused because he had someone else help him register so I don't know if that person completed the "Step 1" on this site or someplace else. I don't want to accidentally "re-register" him and lose his place in line.

Thanks for your help.