Ahead of Florida’s planned expansion of vaccine eligibility, Publix has already started accepting appointments for anyone who is 50 or older.
The grocery chain began accepting those appointments on Friday after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he would sign an executive order making anyone 50 and older eligible for the vaccine during a news briefing in Tallahassee. [Read the full executive order here] “Since today’s scheduling event will be for appointments on Monday and Tuesday of next week, customers who are 50+ could reserve their appointments starting today,” a spokesperson for Publix said in a statement to News 6.
The online reservation system opened at 7 a.m. Friday. As of 2:40 p.m. on Friday, most appointments throughout the state were