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Surgeon General Scott Rivkees says he does not know when additional “first doses” of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be sent or how many doses would be in a potential future delivery.

CEO Ugur Sahin said more study was needed, but because the proteins on the variant are 99% the same as the prevailing strains, BioNTech has “scientific confidence” in the vaccine.

The governor will announce a plan Tuesday for the second phase of vaccine distribution that will put seniors next in line to get shots, over first responders and general health care workers.

On the "Florida Roundup," host Melissa Ross spoke with Dr. Jason Wilson, associate director of Tampa General Hospital’s emergency department about his experience with the Pfizer vaccine.

Recent surveys have shown a large percentage of Americans don't plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine because they don't trust it, are afraid of getting sick, or aren't concerned with the virus.

The top military official with the federal vaccine effort spoke less than 24 hours after Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine became the second to win an emergency use authorization from the FDA.

Pfizer said its production levels have not changed and that millions of doses were sitting in a warehouse without shipment instructions.

The state had expected to receive about 450,000 doses produced by Pfizer over the next two weeks, but production issues could prevent them from being delivered, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.

It's been a free-for-all in recent weeks as manufacturers, grocers, bank tellers, dentists and drive-share companies all jostle to get a spot near the front of the line.

Gov. DeSantis said he thought HHS, which signed an agreement with Pfizer, would allocate based on states’ so-called at-risk populations. Instead, he said the feds “basically did it on a population basis.”