COVID Updates: COVID downward trends continue as city braces for Super Bowl Sunday
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Paramedic George Lombardo transports a COVID-19 positive patient from a smaller emergency hospital to a larger one on July 13 in San Antonio.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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A container is filled with discarded needles that were used to give the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.Jessica Phelps /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Texas reports race and ethnicity data for a mere 3 percent of its COVID-19 cases. Data drives policy.Billy Calzada / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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People that received a COVID-19 vaccine socially distance as they wait the required fifteen minutes to monitor for adverse reactions after getting the shot at the Dallas County mass vaccination site at Fair Park Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)LM Otero, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Another shipment of vaccines to the Alamodome has been delayed.
Appointments scheduled for a second dose for this Tuesday-Thursday have been rescheduled to Feb. 16-18, still at the Alamodome.
This delay will not affect vaccination appointments scheduled at other locations. It is the second time a delayed shipment has prompted the city to reschedule appointments at the Alamodome.
Officials with San Antonio s Metropolitan Health District said the supply delay to the Alamodome will be short-lived and was caused by the state not processing its order for more vaccines.
“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but the doses that have been allocated to us by the state have not arrived at this time,” said Dr. Anita Kurian Assistant Director of Communicable Diseases at Metro Health.
Mass vaccines helped slow San Antonio s 1970 deadly diptheria epidemic
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A Navy corpsman gets ready to innoculate a resident with diptheria vaccine on Sept. 22, 1970, at San Antonio Municipal Auditorium. The potentially fatal respiratory illness affected mostly children, but adults and children alike were vaccinated to help stop the spread of the disease.File /San Antonio Express-News
Wasn t there a time in the late 1960s where we had a diphtheria epidemic? I remember as a teen standing in line at what was then Municipal Auditorium to be inoculated. Liz Marshall
To many readers, diphtheria might sound like an antique disease, associated with the story of Balto, the husky hero of the eponymous 1995 animated movie about the leader of a sled-dog team that brought antitoxin serum from Anchorage to suffering children during a 1925 epidemic in Nome.