UPDATE: All slots were filled Friday in about three hours, according to the city.
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Floridians 19 and older can schedule a COVID-19 vaccination Friday through Miami Beach for the week of April 5, which is when all adults become eligible in the state.
The city said its appointment hotline 305-604-4255 will open at 10 a.m. and will remain open until all 500 slots are full. The city said it will be scheduling a limited amount of appointments for the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, which requires two shots, several weeks apart. Proof of Florida residency, such as a driver’s license, will be required the day of your shot.
The city’s appointment availability comes a day after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that anyone 18 and older would be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine starting on April 5. On Monday, the vaccination age criteria drops from 50 to 40.
We will be reopening our #COVID19 vaccine hotline tomorrow, March 26 at 10 AM. Individuals 19 or older will be eligible to schedule an appointment.
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
