Manatee County to postpone Bennett Park vaccinations this week as nationwide winter storm delays COVID-19 vaccine deliveries

Manatee County to postpone Bennett Park vaccinations this week as nationwide winter storm delays COVID-19 vaccine deliveries
Posted on 02/17/2021

MANATEE COUNTY, FL (Feb. 17, 2021) – Manatee County will contact 5,100 seniors today and tomorrow to reschedule the week's COVID-19 vaccination appointments that had been scheduled for Bennett Park for Thursday and Friday, Feb. 18 - 19.

The new appointment dates will be moved to next Thursday and Friday, Feb. 25 - 26. Public Safety will send automated notifications to let those scheduled know their appointments have been moved to next week. The delay is the result of the massive winter storm that has shut down much of the country.

During a press conference today at Premier Sports Complex, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that the week's 3,000 doses scheduled at Premier Sports this week will continue as planned. DeSantis said the 3,000 doses are Pfizer vaccines. Moderna vaccines which were to be used at Bennett Park this week, he said, have been more severely delayed by the massive winter storms in other areas of the country.