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Coronavirus

Covid Breaks Flagler Infection Records Daily, Filling Half Advent’s Beds; Community and Local Governments Are Indifferent

July 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 59 Comments

Flagler, like Florida, is in covid crisis. Governments and the community at large are mostly indifferent. (© FlaglerLive)

While the Flagler Health Department and AdventHealth Palm Coast are overrun with Covid cases and in-patients, local governments have gone silent, indifferent to the worst wave of the pandemic yet, making a mockery of their claim of a “partnership” with the Health Department or the hospital and amplifying community apathy that multiplies infections.

The Sleaziest Generation

July 23, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 109 Comments

The memorial to the dead of Covid near RFK Stadium in Washington. (Ron Cogswell)

This fourth wave of covid is ravaging the state. It was entirely preventable but for glib, “don’t Fauci my Florida” recklessness and the militancy, disinformation and poisonous selfishness of the unvaccinated. This is on them.

Countering Disinformation, AdventHealth Physicians Say Covid Vaccine ‘Highly’ Recommended for Children 12 and Up

May 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

“We highly recommend the vaccine,” Levent said.(© FlaglerLive via AdventHealth TV)

As the Flagler Health Department prepares to order a batch of Pfizer vaccines, now that it’s been approved for children as young as 12, AdventHealth physicians today spoke of the importance of vaccinating children and the rarely spoken-of and unnerving complications from covid complications in infected children.

Trump-Republican Men Lead in Vaccine Refusal, Putting Goal of Herd Immunity at Risk

April 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 49 Comments

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About 13 percent of American adults don’t want a covid-19 vaccine, but nearly 30 percent of Republicans don’t. The counties that are most vaccine-hesitant are rural, more likely to support Trump and have lower income levels and college graduation rates.

Flagler Health Department and Grace Community Pharmacy Team Up in More Personal-Level Vaccine Push

April 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Grace Benet administers all vaccines at Grace Community Pharmacy, which launched a partnership with the Flagler Health Department in March. (© FlaglerLive)

In its push to personalize the vaccination experience and scale what reluctance there may be among residents to be inoculated, the Flagler Health Department in March launched a partnership with Grace Community Pharmacy (and has since added One Pharmacy), part of the department’s attempt to get Flagler ranked first in the rate of vaccinations.

Tiny Number of People Will Be Hospitalized Despite Being Vaccinated. We Have to Learn Why.

April 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Experts say we should investigate “breakthrough infections” to look out for variants and understand who’s vulnerable. In many cases, that’s not happening. Crucial pieces of the puzzle are being tossed in the trash.

School Districts and Families Are Divided: Should Masks Still Be in Place in the Upcoming Academic Year?

April 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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With an uncertain outlook of COVID-19 and political connotations surrounding masks, classrooms could become a checkerboard, with some students wearing masks but others showing their faces.

‘Don’t Be a Holdout’: Flagler Aims for 1st In State in Vaccinations, With 40.7% Inoculated So Far and Youth Shots Ahead

April 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

It's worth the selfie. (Gretchen Smith/Health Department)

Flagler County’s vaccine supply is now exceeding demand as health officials step up their outreach to restaurants, local businesses, schools and children 16 and 17 to get vaccinated in hopes of vaulting the county’s vaccination rate to the top of the state’s chart. Flagler is 7th or 8th best in the state in vaccinations.

Covid-19 Daily Data for Florida and Flagler: Cases, Testing, Locations, Hospitalizations and Deaths

April 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 35 Comments

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Florida’s and Flagler’s complete daily reports by the Health Department of Covid-19 data including county-by-county infection numbers, testing, people monitored and deaths.

Backed by Millions in Public and Private Cash, Rapid Covid Tests Are Coming to Stores Near You

April 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Scientists and lawmakers agree that over-the-counter covid tests could allow desk workers to settle back into their cubicles and make it easier to reopen schools and travel, though screening accuracy varies, as does the way consumers get results.

Unlike Many Republican Leaders, Gov. DeSantis Says Yes to Getting Vaccinated

April 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis at a news conference Wednesday, in a still from a Florida Channel video.

According to one survey in 22 states, Republicans were being vaccinated at a little more than half the rate for Democrats. The governor is 42, and so is included among the latest cohort to become eligible.

Bike Week, Spring Break and Doffed Masks Blamed for Latest ‘Worrisome’ Covid Spike Even as Vaccinations Spread

March 30, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The Flagler Department of Health's vaccination clinic at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church this morning. The group to the left was awaiting the Moderna shot, which was administered behind the white pane. The group to the right, on the other side of the row of white tables, waited the required 15 or 30 minutes after the shot to ensure that no adverse reaction takes place. (© FlaglerLive)

Local public health officials and physicians are imploring residents not to relax their covid-safety measures and warning of stubbornly persistent infections even as vaccinations have made large inroads in the local population.

Ask the Doctor: Covid and the Russian Flu, Vaccines, Allergy Shots and Colonoscopies, Future Booster Shots

March 27, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

In this latest installment of FlaglerLive’s “Ask the Doctor” column by Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia Counties Health Departments, the doctor takes on an intriguing question about covid and the Russian flu of the late 1970s, whether booster vaccine shots will be needed, how allergy shots or colonoscopies affect vaccination, and so on.

Flagler Beach Again Cancels July 4 Parade and Fireworks, Wrapping Hopes for a Big Event Around Christmas

March 25, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

“If we’re going to be criticized for being safe, mea culpa,” Flagler Beach Police Chief said, discussing a gradual but slow reopening of events in the city.

For the second year in a row, Flagler Beach will not host its traditional July 4 parade and fireworks, the city commission decided tonight, nor will the event be postponed to Labor Day. Doing so would be too “risky,” the commission agreed with Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder. Commissioners are placing their hopes on a big event and parade around Christmas, including fireworks.

Anti-Maskers Subject Flagler School Board to Drizzle of Disinformation in Latest Attempt to Lift Mask Rules

March 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

A sign at a Palm Coast clinic that anti-maskers may have trouble reading. (© FlaglerLive)

The emergence of those anti-masking voices, while restricted to a very small but shrill handful, points to the sort of ideological talking points the board may have to contend with over the next weeks or months, which would be a distraction from the more pragmatic and busy agenda set out by Mittelstadt and the board. 

Employee Ranks Double at Flagler’s Own Coastal Cloud as Company’s Vaccine and Testing Platforms Go Viral

March 22, 2021 | Michael Lewis | 4 Comments

Trae Thompson (left) and Eric Westbrook (right) The picture was taken at Jacksonville Vaccine site at Edward Waters College.

Hammock-based Coastal Cloud’s testing and vaccine platforms, adopted by the Florida Division of Emergency Management, placed the company at the center of the state’s battle against covid and resulted in a doubling of the company’s ranks to 280, despite the crisis.

Covid Vaccine Eligibility Is a ‘Crazy Quilt’ of State Rules, Unleashing ‘Vaccine Jealousy’

March 22, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Vaccinations at the county fairgrounds in Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

The different vaccine-eligibility rules among states — and sometimes varying rules even within states — has created a mishmash. This has unleashed “vaccine jealousy” as people see friends and family in other states qualify ahead of them even if they are the same age or have the same occupation.

Two-Thirds of Flagler’s 65 and Over Have at Least One Shot of Vaccine, Minority Outreach Expands

March 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Two-thirds of Flagler County's population 65 and older has at least one shot of the vaccine as of today. (© FlaglerLive)

As the CDC issues mask guidelines that provide some relief for those fully vaccinated, Flagler County nears the 25 percent mark for those who have at least one shot, but new cases of covid have spiked for the third straight week, signaling a still-raging pandemic.

Lysenko, Stalin and Trump

March 13, 2021 | Pierre Tristam | 48 Comments

Trofim Lysenko, left, speaking at the Kremlin in 1935, with Joseph Stalin standing, right. (Wikimedia Commons)

On the one-year mark of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump’s malicious, politically motivated anti-science handling of a calamity that has killed more than half a million Americans so far recalls the alliance between fake Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko and Stalin, which led to the death of millions.

Ask the Doctor: On the Covid Vaccine’s Safety, Emerging Mutations, Viral Transmission Post-Vaccination

March 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

In this latest installment of FlaglerLive’s “Ask the Doctor” column by Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia Counties Health Departments, the doctor takes on recurring questions about the covid vaccine’s safety, its effectiveness against new variants of the virus, and many other questions.

Almost a Quarter of Flagler Is Vaccinated, But Cases Rise; CDC Says Fully Vaccinated May Unmask In Some Cases

March 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Case loads in Flagler County have risen for the last three successive weeks even as vaccines have made advances in the county. (© FlaglerLive)

As the CDC issues mask guidelines that provide some relief for those fully vaccinated, Flagler County nears the 25 percent mark for those who have at least one shot, but new cases of covid have spiked for the third straight week, signaling a still-raging pandemic.

Sharply Rebuking More McDonald Falsehoods, School Board Says No Mask-Rule Changes This Year

March 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

The picture tells the story: Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt, who visited every school today, led a welcome-back line at Buddy Taylor Middle School, where every facultuy member and employee and School Board member Maria Barbosa wore a mask, as per school district regulation--with the exception of School Board Chairman Janet McDonald, who has frequently denied the severity of covid-19 and is not a big mask wearer. (© FlaglerLive)

School Board member Janet McDonald was again the outlier on Tuesday as she pressed for a relaxation of mask rules while repeating falsehoods about masks and vaccines. Superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt took her strongest stand yet, saying the district would not alter its current covid-safety protocols. A majority of the school board agreed.

More Than Half of Flagler’s Seniors Have Been Vaccinated, But County’s Covid Deaths Now at 92

March 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The percentage of people vaccinated in Flagler, Florida and the United States as of March 1. The proportion of vaccinated people 65 and over for the U.S. as a whole is not available. (© FlaglerLive)

So far 19,311 of Flagler County’s 36,500 people who are 65 and over have been vaccinated with at least one shot, representing 53 percent of the senior population (age 65 and over), up from 45 percent seven days ago.

When You Get Your Chance for a Covid Vaccine, Don’t Worry About Effectiveness Numbers

February 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Flagler Health Department personnel and volunteers administering the Moderna covid vaccine at the county airport recently. (© FlaglerLive)

When getting vaccinated against covid-19, there’s no sense being picky. You should take the first authorized vaccine that’s offered, experts say, whether it’s Moderna, Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson, no matter what the effectiveness numbers say.

Janet McDonald Again Hawks False and ‘Dangerous’ Claims About Masks and Vaccines at School Board Meeting

February 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

School Board member Janet McDonald has repeatedly used her seat on the board to disseminate false, unsupported or misleading information. She did so again Tuesday, regarding the pandemic. (© FlaglerLive)

Calling for rejecting “outside” guidelines on the pandemic, Janet McDonald said communities with mask-wearing have more virus transmission than those without and claimed the covid-19 vaccine “is not a vaccine.” She spoke at a school board workshop, and offered no evidence.

Covid Vaccination Report: 17.1% in Flagler Have at Least 1 Shot, 45.2% of 65 and Over

February 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The percentage of people vaccinated in Flagler, Florida and the United States as of February 19. The proportion of vaccinated people 65 and over for the U.S. as a whole is not available. (© FlaglerLive)

The latest proportions of people vaccinated for Covid-19 in Flagler County, Florida and the United States, according to the Florida Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control.

Ask the Doctor: Returning Children to School Safely, All Those Post-Vaccine Reactions, HIV-Patient Eligibility

February 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

Dr. Stephen Bickel answers new questions about the anxieties of returning children to school in covid times, the effects (or non-effects) of the covid vaccine on various medical conditions, the eligibility of populations other than those 65-and-over for the vaccine, and more.

Walmart Starts Covid Vaccines Friday But Not in Flagler, Volusia or St. Johns; 9% in Flagler Have 1st Shot

February 10, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Walmart will start providing covid vaccines on Friday in select stores around Florida, but none in Flagler, Volusia or St. Johns counties. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida residents may get vaccinated at any Florida Walmart location of their choice, regardless of their home address. The Flagler County Health Department meanwhile continues to administer about 800 first shots per week.

Judge Rejects Publix Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Deli Employee’s Covid Death

February 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A Publix deli, above. Gerardo Gutierrez, a 70-year-old employee of a Miami Beach Publix, died in April. (Paul Kenjerski)

The lawsuit, filed in November, contends that Gutierrez was infected in late March by another employee who came to work with Covid-19. It makes a series of allegations, including that Publix at the time prevented employees from wearing masks that could have prevented the spread of the disease.

Two Flagler Beach Residents Arrested After Refusing to Comply With Mask Mandate at Commission Meeting

January 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

Michael Streit, standing, and Karen Streit, who was putting her cell phone into her purse, after their arrest by Flagler Beach police at the beginning of the city's commission meeting Thursday evening. (© FlaglerLive)

In a first at a local government meeting, two Flagler Beach residents were arrested Thursday evening after defiantly delaying a Flagler Beach City Commission meeting for 12 minutes, refusing to don a mask, in accordance with a city ordinance, and refusing to leave the commission room on their own. They were not arrested for a mask violation, but for trespassing after warnings.

Upholding Requirement, Court Compares Mask Mandate to Smoking Bans in Public Places

January 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Palm Beach County Commission at a June meeting when it approved a mandatory mask mandate. It did so during a workshop.

A state appeals court Wednesday rejected a challenge to a Palm Beach County requirement that people wear face masks in businesses and other public places to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

7 Days, 11 Additional Covid Deaths in Flagler, Totaling 68 as County Passes 5,000 Cases; 2nd Dose Vaccines Begin

January 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Public health and medical staffers preparing second-dose covid-19 vaccine shots this morning at the Flagler County airport grounds. (© FlaglerLive)

It was the deadliest seven-day stretch of the pandemic for Flagler County. Over the weekend the tally rose to 60, and today the Health Department reported eight additional deaths, all senior citizens, bringing Flagler County’s total to 68. Second-dose shot vaccines were set to begin this week, along with a new batch of first-dose vaccines.

Ask the Doctor: No, Vaccines Contain No Aborted Fetus Tissue, Socializing Without Masks, Politics of Vaccines

January 24, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

Dr. Stephen Bickel answers two dozen new questions, including about the politics and logistics of the vaccine rollout, whether vaccinated people may socialize without masks, and numerous specific questions about the vaccine and beyond it.

“We’ve Let the Worst Happen”: Reflecting on 400,000 Dead

January 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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A reporter who’s covered the pandemic from the start examines the toll covid-19 has taken on the country and what to expect from a new president.

5 Reasons to Wear a Mask Even After You’re Vaccinated

January 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Even people who are receiving their second dose of the vaccine are choosing to keep wearing masks, as much to protect themselves as to protect others, since the vaccines may not prevent you from spreading the coronavirus and herd or community immunity is still a very long way off.

As Covid Patient Load Keeps Breaking Records at AdventHealth Palm Coast, ER Director Gives Inside Look

January 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The daily count of patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of Covid-19 at AdventHealth Palm Coast since October, through today. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

As the Covid-19 patient load reaches 35–the hospital is licensed for 113 beds–Dr. Paul Mucciolo, AdventHealth Palm Coast’s ER medical director until last year, and the Chief of Staff since, details the hospital’s response and challenges to a record surge.

Ask the Doctor: Securing Your 2nd Vaccine Dose, Why So Little Supply, Death or Adverse Reactions

January 15, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

Dr. Stephen Bickel answers questions about the short supply of Covid vaccines, the potency of the first shot and what happens if the second shot is delayed, where to get the second shot, and specific questions on the vaccine’s content, adverse reactions and other issues.

2 Covid Deaths Raise Flagler’s Total to 52; State Emergency Management Chief Rips Federal Vaccine Rollout

January 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz addressing the the newly created House Pandemics and Public Emergencies Committee today. (House video via Florida Channel)

Bob Snyder, who heads the state-controlled Flagler County Health Department, said he expects some more doses next week, but he doesn’t know how many, while the head of state emergency management blamed the federal government’s rollout, detailing its obstacles, in unusually blunt language for a member of the DeSantis administration.

Leading Senate Republican Says DeSantis Hasn’t Been Forthcoming About Flawed Vaccine Rollout

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Sen. Aaron Bean, R-Fernandina Beach, said during a meeting of the Senate Health Policy Committee that there is statewide frustration over the vaccine rollout and that DeSantis administration officials need to provide the public with a “clear direction” about the state’s plans.

Covid Vaccine Now Available to 65 and Over at 4 Publix Stores in Palm Coast and Flagler Beach

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

The Publix store in Palm Coast's Town Center is one of four Publix locations where vaccines are being made available, by appointment only. (© FlaglerLive)

Publix Supermarkets is making “a limited number of Covid-19 vaccines” available at four Publix stores in Flagler County starting now. But as has been the case with vaccines offered by local health departments in Flagler and elsewhere, all available vaccine appointments were snapped up as soon as they were made available. 

Ask the Doctor: Visions of Vaccines Dance In Our Heads

January 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

FlaglerLive today is fortunate and proud to be launching the “Ask the Doctor” column, by Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia Counties Health Departments. You are invited to submit your Covid, vaccine and other medical-related questions. Dr. Bickel will answer them here on a regular basis.

Ask the Doctor: Frequently Asked Questions Archive

January 12, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Dr. Stephen Bickel.

The Ask the Doctor archive of questions frequently asked and linked to the answers provided by Dr. Stephen Bickel of the Flagler and Volusia Health Departments. The Ask the Doctor feature is a regular feature on FlaglerLive.

‘Zero Doses’ of Vaccines for Flagler This Week, ‘Few If Any’ Over Next 5 as Covid Surges Amid Warnings of Bleak Months

January 11, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There were 398 confirmed new cases in Flagler in the week ending Saturday, by far a new record, with no letup in sight and no vaccines ahead. (© FlaglerLive)

The state is sending what little supply of vaccines it has elsewhere for the next five weeks: The Villages qualify, Flagler does not. So even people due for their second shot may not get it as Flagler County’s Covid numbers surge to their worst levels yet. Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler County Health Department, spoke as if at a wake when he updated government officials this morning, and in many ways it was.

Flagler Emergency Chief on Vaccines: ‘We Are Doing Our Best with the Resources that We Have’

January 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord at the County Fairgrounds vaccination site on Saturday. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord explains the county’s covid-19 vaccine response, its constraints, what it’s learned from the experience and what lies ahead in the rollout.

In 1st Loss Since April, Economy Sheds 140,000 Jobs as Pandemic Worsens and Vaccines Lag

January 8, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The national economy lost 140,000 jobs in December, the first loss since April. (© FlaglerLive)

After seven months of gains that had recovered more than half the jobs lost in spring, the national economy lost 140,000 jobs in December as the coronavirus pandemic worsened and efforts to contain it failed, with a president largely absent from governance and leadership since before the election.

As Rollout Criticism of DeSantis Grows, 22 Publix Stores Will Provide Covid Vaccine, None Near Flagler

January 5, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Where vaccination is a pleasure, but not in Flagler. (© FlaglerLive)

The state is directing 15,000 vaccine doses to 22 Publix stores across the three Central Florida counties as the administration works to increase the number of locations where people age 65 and older can go to receive inoculations. DeSantis’ announcement comes amid a wave of criticism about the governor’s handling of the vaccine rollout.

600 Are Vaccinated at Flagler County Fairgrounds in 1st of Many Rounds As Crush of Cars Stretches to U.S. 1

January 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 61 Comments

The Covid-19 vaccination station at the Flagler County Fairgrounds this morning. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County’s first large-scale vaccination event drew health care workers and people 65 and over. No one was turned away at the Flagler County Fairgrounds, where the next round is expected Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but by appointment only.

Is the Hobbled Distribution of Vaccines the Biggest Trump Screw Up Yet?

December 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Plenty more where those Moderna vaccines came from, except that Trump administration incompetence is preventing their distribution. (© FlaglerLive)

Some 7.7 million first doses of vaccines have been shipped to date (two million shots have been given), with a target of 16 million by the end of the year. This is warp speed?

More Than 2,900 Health Care Workers Died This Year. The Government Barely Kept Track.

December 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Fatalities from the coronavirus among health workers have skewed young, with the majority of victims under age 60. People of color have been disproportionately affected, accounting for about 65% of deaths. Yet disinformation continues to paint the wrong picture about who’s dying.

Festive New Year Atmosphere as Flagler County’s 1st Responders and Health Department Workers Get Vaccines

December 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Caryn Prather, Flagler County Fire Rescue's Community Paramedic and one of the leaders of the county's 10-months-long Covid-testing program, getting her first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Tuesday at the Emergency Operations Center. She was one of about 20 people inoculated. (© FlaglerLive)

It was a festive atmosphere Tuesday afternoon in a classroom of Flagler County’s Emergency Operations Center, temporarily converted into a shooting gallery: over the course of an hour, some 20 people, most of them firefighter-paramedics, some of them Department of Health employees, sat for their first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna edition. 

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