Coronavirus

Miami Beach has a limited amount of COVID-19 vaccines again. Here’s how to get one

Miami Beach is offering a limited amount of COVID-19 vaccine appointments Tuesday.

The city said its appointment hotline will open at 10 a.m. and will remain open until all 500 slots are full. The city will only be scheduling first-dose Pfizer shots, not second doses. To schedule, call 305-604-4255.

The following people are eligible:

Anyone 50 and older

K-12 teachers and school staff 18 and older

Anyone 18 to 49 deemed by a physician to be “extremely vulnerable” to COVID-19 because of a preexisting medical condition

Anyone who books an appointment will need to show proof of Florida residency, such as a driver’s license or ID card. People 18 to 49 with a preexisting medical condition will also need to show a physician-signed at risk form. The form can be downloaded from the Florida Department of Health’s website. K-12 teachers and school staff should take proof of employment, such as a work badge or ID, just in case it’s needed.

This story was originally published March 23, 2021 at 8:34 AM.

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Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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