On May 1, 2021, the president of the USA, Joe Bidencelebrated the event: 103.4 million Americans over 16 years of age (31.2% of the population) are already completely vaccinated against him covid-19. Los Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) They also reported that 146.2 million people (44% of the population) have received at least one dose.
The campaign to face the pandemic has led to a new tourism in the North American country. Many people have traveled to this nation to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
And it is that at least 21 states currently do not ask for residency that you live in USAa situation that many people from other parts of the world have taken advantage of to travel to get vaccinated.
However, in states like Florida new health guidelines were issued in an attempt to reduce ‘vaccine tourism’. As of January 21, 2021, they are now required to be administered only to permanent or temporary residents.
The state’s Surgeon General, Scott Rivkees, signed a public health advisory in which it prioritizes Floridians for vaccinesdays after Gov. Ron DeSantis publicly said vaccines should be reserved for those who reside full or part time in the Sunshine State.
“We are only applying (vaccines) for the Florida residentsDeSantis said. “You have to live here full time or at least part time,” he added.
DeSantis made a distinction between those who live in Florida during the winter months (known as snowbirds) and those who go simply to try and catch the vaccine.
“Now we have residents part-timers who are here all winter,” he said. “They go to doctors here or whatever, it’s fine. What we don’t want are touristslos foreign. We want to put seniors first, but obviously we want to put people who live here first in line,” she noted.
The change came after it was reported in the news that some non-Floridians, including people who have a second home in Florida and several wealthy Argentines had traveled to the state to get vaccinated.
On April 27, the city of North Miami Beach apologized for the “confusion” created by a statement by its mayor, Anthony F. DeFillipo, inviting foreign tourists to be vaccinated against covid-19 there and reminded that, according to Florida state regulations, only residents can be vaccinated.
In a statement, the Mayor’s Office met the commotion caused by DeFillipo’s statements in an interview on Facebook and the mayor himself pointed them out in statements to local media.
In the midst of the controversy, according to Univisionsome tourists came on April 26 until the Mayor of North Miami Beachas an Ecuadorian couple did, with the intention of receiving the vaccines offered by DeFillipo, but they were told that they could not be vaccinated.
The mayor of North Miami Beach assures that they have applied thousands of vaccines from the #coronavirus international tourists and says he has asked several consulates to notify their citizens that they can come get vaccinated. https://t.co/a2JRby4MR6
— Univision Atlanta (@univision34ATL) April 25, 2021
Since the vaccines are available “there has been a lot of confusion about eligibility and residency requirements both here in Florida as in other states,” the Mayor’s Office said in a statement.
After the controversy over the so-called ‘vaccine tourism’which broke out in January as a result of Argentine tourists posting videos of the center of Miami where the dose was applied, the state of Florida made it a requirement to be vaccinated to present documents that certify that you reside in this territory in the south of EE.UU.
Despite the requirement, many Latin Americans arrive daily at Florida to get vaccinated and do so by presenting account statements from a local bank or property deeds.
Florida had allowed anyone age 65 or older to be vaccinated regardless of where they live residence. That made it one of the first states to open up to that age group.
In contrast, many other states of USA have requirements linked to the residence and ask people to bring ID, mail, or rental stubs to prove it.
Several states have also moved closer to recommended phase 1b guidelines of the CDC Vaccine Committee who say that the vaccines they must go to the adults age 75 and older already the workers frontline essentials.
Naturally, those desperate for the vaccine, who can travel and are lucky enough to get a vaccination appointment on tricky websites or through hotlines, have moved to get them, according to CNN reports.
Similar vaccination cases have also been observed in large metropolitan areas that cross borders of some states. Similar interstate vaccinations have been observed in major metropolitan areas that cross borders.
new york city has vaccinated health care workers or other essential workers like teachers or firefighters who work in the city but live outside the five boroughs. According to New York City dataapproximately 73% of those who have been vaccinated in New York live in the city, 15% live in another part of New York State, and the rest live in New JerseyConnecticut, or another state, or you did not provide your residency information.
Interviewed by CNN, William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt Universitysaid he recognized that a New Yorker might be frustrated to see a traveler from New Jersey cross state lines to get vaccinated.
However, as long as the vaccines are used rather than left intact, it is not a problem from a public health perspective.
“Instead of ‘it’s my vaccine, not yours,’ the vaccine put in arms is what we want,” he said.
The ultimate goal is to vaccinate enough Americans to reach the immunity herd This is generally estimated at around 70% to 80% of the population.
Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN he didn’t see the vaccine tourism as a moral problembut emphasized that traveling during the pandemic has its own risks.
States that do not ask for residency
Currently of the 50 states that are in USA y District of Columbiaonly 21 do not ask proof of residence in the North American country. These are: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wyoming.
Altogether in USA More than 230 million doses of some of the available vaccines have been administered so far: those from Moderna and Pfizer, which require two injections, and the single-dose vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, according to CDC data.
In the last week, the daily average of administered doses was 2.6 million, which is expected to fulfill Joe Biden’s promise to have enough vaccines available to all Americans at the end of May.
Fully vaccinated people can thus meet the new guidelines set by the CDC, said Jeff Zients, coordinator of the response against the covid-19 from White Houseat a press conference, “and enjoy time in the park with his family, having dinner and socializing with his friends outside without the need to wear a mask.”
Although the number of daily infections has decreased in recent weeks, USA It continues to be the country most affected in the world by the covid-19 pandemic, with more than 575,000 deaths and 32 million confirmed cases.
How to get vaccinated in each state?
– Alabama
– Alaska
– Arizona
– Arkansas
– California
– Colorado
– Connecticut
– Delaware
– Florida
– Georgia
– Hawaii
– Idaho
– Illinois
– Indiana
– Lowa
– Kansas
– Kentucky
– Louisiana
– Maine
– Maryland
– Massachusetts
– Michigan
– Minnesota
– Mississippi
– Missouri
– Montana
– Nebraska
– Nevada
– New Hampshire
– New Jersey
– New Mexico
– New York
– North Carolina
– North Dakota
– Ohio
– Oklahoma
– Oregon
– Pennsylvania
– Rhode Island
– South Carolina
– South Dakota
– Tennessee
– Texas
– Utah
– Vermont
– Virginia
– Washington D.C
– Washington
– West Virginia
– Wisconsis
– Wyoming