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APH pilots COVID-19 vaccine clinic without appointments

Removing Barriers To Vaccine A Top Priority As Supply Exceeds Demand Through Austin Public Health

KUT Workers direct cars through a mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Circuit of the Americas in February. Austin Public Health is hosting a walk-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Delco Activity Center this Thursday and Friday from noon until 7:30 p.m. or until all its vaccines are administered. Vaccines will be available to all residents age 18 and older. No appointment is needed. If supplies run out, Austin Public Health said, staff will help schedule appointments for those who show up. APH currently only offers the Moderna vaccine, so any 16- and 17-year-olds who want to get vaccinated must find a provider elsewhere.

COVID-19 mass vaccination sites could soon be a thing of the past

Austin public health officials update public on vaccines, COVID-19 trends

Austin and Travis County's top health officials plan to update the public on the latest coronavirus vaccination efforts and pandemic trends Friday.  Dr. Mark Escott, interim Austin-Travis County Health authority, will be joined by Austin Public Health Director Stephanie Hayden-Howard during the public briefing at 10  a.m. Friday.  Watch the public briefing live here on Friday at 10 a.m.:   Every media outlet in Travis County is allowed to ask Escott and Hayden-Howard two questions about vaccines or anything related to coronavirus cases. The American-Statesman plans to ask questions regarding two main concerns raised by readers this week:  Austin Public Health leaders on Tuesday said more than 10,000 coronavirus vaccine slots went unfilled Monday. Can you please describe the demand for them in the past few days and provide an update on how many vaccines appointments have yet to be booked? 

As COVID Vaccine Appointments Again Go Unfilled, Austin Public Health Looks To Partner With More Grassroots Organizations

A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Austin last month. After another week of leftover COVID-19 vaccine appointments, Austin Public Health is looking to shift its vaccination efforts and adjust its online sign-up system. “We must be flexible,” APH Director Stephanie Hayden-Howard said during a news conference Friday. “Our goal is to provide vaccines to our community and meet them where they are.” To do this, she said, the department plans to partner with more grassroots organizations, as well as go to apartment complexes and community centers, and change its hours of operations. On Friday, for example, APH is partnering with the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians to set up a vaccine clinic at Emo's for local musicians.

Austin's biggest vaccination hub seeing a drop in demand for COVID-19 shots

Austin's biggest vaccination hub seeing a drop in demand for COVID-19 shots Bettie Cross © Provided by KEYE Austin Austin Public Health (APH) is temporarily stopping the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at Travis County’s largest vaccination hub. “Austin Public Health has paused administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pending the revue from the FDA,” said Dr. Mark Escott, Interim Health Authority at Austin Public Health. APH typically gets 12,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine each week. Recently, it also started getting 1,000 dose shipments of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. “Luckily, the majority of the vaccine that Austin Public Health receives and administers is Moderna. So, we have a very small number of doses that we’ve given of Johnson & Johnson and that we have of Johnson & Johnson,” said Dr. Escott.

Women's work, 'Curated Cocktails,' Met Gala: News from around our 50 states

Women’s work, ‘Curated Cocktails,’ Met Gala: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: The state has temporarily paused giving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine out of an “abundance of caution” while federal officials investigate reports of rare blood clots, the state health officer announced Tuesday. Dr. Scott Harris cautioned people to remember those were just six incidents out of 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine that have been given across the nation. “COVID-19 vaccine safety is a top priority for Alabama. It is important to know that the adverse effects potentially stemming from the Johnson & Johnson shot have been extremely rare in the country, but out of an abundance of caution, Alabama is temporarily pausing these shots until we know more,” Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement. Some vaccine appointments were likely canceled this week, Harris said. But he said the J&J vaccine makes up a small portion of the shots given in the state, so it should not have a large effect on availability. Alabama has so far distributed about 71,000 J&J doses. Harris said the state has another 88,000 or so that will sit on shelves during the investigation but will remain viable until June. Harris said officials had hoped to use the one-shot vaccine for harder-to-reach populations, such as those who are homebound.

Despite Expanded Eligibility, Vaccine Appointments Through Austin Public Health Go Unfilled

KUT The director of Austin Public Health says the department needs to change its process to reach and vaccinate more people in Austin and Travis County after nearly 3 out of 4 first-dose coronavirus vaccine appointments released Monday went unfilled. "In conversations with some of my colleagues across the state of Texas, a lot of us are getting to a point where we're going to have to pivot and change strategies," Stephanie Hayden-Howard told a joint session of the Austin City Council and Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday. "Because now we're at a point where there is more vaccine that is readily available in our community. So we must be strategic and start [making] those changes."

Watch live: Austin-Travis County officials to give COVID update

Watch: Austin Public Health Leaders Give Weekly COVID-19 Update

KUT Cars line up at at drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination site at the Toney Burger Activity Center in South Austin last month. Numbers tracking the coronavirus pandemic in the Austin area have stopped improving and could worsen, new projections show. The projections released Friday by UT's COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, show lines flattening in the weeks ahead and possibly rising. The consortium reports a 32% probability that the pandemic will worsen here and a reproduction number of .91. A rate above 1 would mean the pandemic is growing in severity. "We're seeing plateauing of the projections for hospital admissions, ICU admissions and hospital utilization," Austin Public Health interim Medical Director Dr. Mark Escott said in a briefing. "And as of today, entering the stage 2 is off of the projections through the first week of May."