@Jaxk Vaccinating healthcare workers first does influence some counties appearing to have been vaccinating based on wealth possibly, but the county largest in The Villages was not favored, it was passed over initially. I don’t even think there is a hospital in Sumter County, not one I can think of. Sumter holds the majority of The Villages. We do have a hospital in Lake County, The Villages runs through a small part of Lake. Sumter was initially given 2,500 doses for 75,000 eligible people back when it was 65 and up. Woefully inadequate. Most counties might have 15% of their people over 65, but we have 58%, so basing allocations on total population was ridiculous. This was after healthcare had already been receiving vaccinations for a couple of weeks. After 2 weeks of Sumter sitting on most of the 2,500 doses, because it seems they did not plan ahead, they finally starting to get some doses out. About then DeSantis set up a private company here and rerouted some vaccine from other parts of the state to Sumter and did a press conference to try to save himself with Villagers I guess.
DeSantis totally botched it up initially with the allocations to my area, but at least he did something to try to correct it, but other parts of the state think we are being favored, but very far from it. Half the Villagers still have to go outside of county to get vaccinated, which goes with what @janbb was saying that people who could drive had more opportunities. Those people are counted in the counties they were vaccinated in.
Anyway, sorry for the long explanation, it was also opportunity for me to vent I guess. I just worry that politics keeps DeSantis and Biden from sending a FEMA site here, and we still have lots of much older people who cannot do the drive or easily make the appointments. We do have people helping to make appointments for people who are struggling, but many people can’t travel far and the appointments book up fast in the one or two stores that might be near the person. If FEMA sets up here the left bias media will go insane saying The Villages is being vaccinated while minority areas are still overlooked. I do not want us put in front of poor areas, I just don’t want us overlooked. I don’t even mean me, I already had my first shot. I kind of have taken it upon myself to advocate for my community.