Publix is moving all of its Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booking opportunities in Florida to Fridays only.
The Lakeland-based grocery store chain announced the scheduling change Thursday. It did not say if this would affect the total number of appointments available.
Publix’s online portal will open on Fridays at 7 a.m. so people can make Moderna appointments for the following week. Previously, people had the opportunity to book a Moderna vaccine on Mondays and Fridays.
Publix will also continue to offer Johnson & Johnson appointments through its online portal at 7 a.m. every Wednesday.
As a reminder, both of the vaccines Publix offers are for people 18 and older. Teens 16 and 17 years old need to find a vaccination site that offer Pfizer’s vaccine, which is for people 16 and older.
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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
