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COVID-19 Bulletin (05/12/21)
Dallas businesses are offering incentives to get the vaccines, but most of those who haven t already received it say they won t be vaccinated.
By Will Maddox
Published in
Healthcare Business
May 11, 2021
11:00 pm
159 new COVID-19 cases and 8 deaths.
A state-wide study showed that
Texas’ return to in-person education last fall “gradually but substantially accelerated,” leading to at least 43,000 additional cases and 800 additional deaths statewide reported the Texas Tribune. The study was done by University of Kentucky researchers, choosing Texas as most schools around the country were still closed while Texas and few others were re-opening.
A new poll finds that
Local businesses provide incentives to residents who get COVID-19 vaccine
Free burgers from Wingfield s and free water bottles from Walmart are among some of the items residents received while getting the vaccine at a clinic in Oak Cliff. Author: Demond Fernandez Updated: 7:21 PM CDT May 10, 2021
DALLAS Some businesses and churches continue partnering to provide incentives for residents who get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Members at Bethel A.M.E. in Dallas were standing on the sidewalk outside the church and waving signs early Monday morning. They were trying to attract as many people as possible to their COVID-19 vaccine clinic.
”When the church is open, people feel safe,” said Pastor Dwayne Hysmith.
From church to a local bar district, the COVID-19 vaccine is coming a place near you
Look for a shot at several churches, Deep Ellum and even Dallas Love Field.
Nurse Lisa Taylor gets a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for the next patient at Ellis Davis Fieldhouse, a Parkland Hospital testing and vaccine location, in Dallas on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
Remember when demand far outstripped the supply of COVID-19 vaccines? Back then lines were long and people were scrambling to get a shot at a shot.
Now there are plenty of doses, but not enough people stepping up for them. So even while half the people in Dallas County (and Texas as a whole) have received at least one shot, we are far from reaching the 80% vaccination rate that experts call “herd immunity,” which will enable all of us to get back to normal life.