ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – About 200 Orange County paramedics and EMTs received their first dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine at the Orange County Convention Center Saturday.
The vaccines are the first to be distributed by the Florida Department of Health in Orange County. This following the administration of the Pfizer vaccine to health care workers at AdventHealth.“It’s a major turn in the shift of the pandemic,” said Kent Donahue, spokesperson for the Florida Department of Health in Orange County. “Now we can take the offense and fight this virus.”The administration of the vaccine comes after Orange County received 16,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine in a shipment last week.