More COVID Vaccine Coming to Escambia County - WUWF

Feb 22, 2021

COVID-19 hospitalizations at the three major hospitals – Baptist, West Florida and Sacred Heart – are also on the decline.

“We can work with citizens; be less restrictive; [but] if things go up, we’ve got to get back to our good habits and continuing to do that,” the mayor said.

“Sacred Heart will have 400 [doses], Baptist will have 400,” said Robinson.

In the Florida Panhandle, Robinson says the issue at this point is supply, rather than distribution.

It’s vital, says the mayor, that health officials and the city work with the Black community to make sure a vaccine – be it Moderna, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson or something else – is available to all

“I think that we need to be working with partners like the alliance of Black pastors that is really working to make sure that everybody understands the importance of getting the vaccine,” said Robinson

One thousand doses for the Health Department; 900 each for Sacred Heart and Baptist, Community Health Center 1,600, West Florida Hospital 400 doses, and Woodlands 200