Wintry weather causes delays during small drive-thru operation at Fair Park COVID-19 vaccine site
“There was no communication whatsoever from Dallas. Just hearing it from the news and then figuring it out as we go,” Alexa Shimkus said. Author: Ariel Plasencia Updated: 5:47 PM CST February 9, 2021
DALLAS Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced Tuesday that the drive-thru operations at the Fair Park vaccination site will resume at noon Wednesday.
“Due to colder than expected temperatures today, the need to keep the vaccine at a stable temperature, and the delay in receiving required generators, our transition to a full drive-thru operation at Fair Park will be delayed,” Jenkins said in a tweet.
Whitley wants to see efforts in North Texas extend beyond the four largest counties. He estimated as much as 8% of the around 200,000 vaccinations Tarrant County has distributed have been to non-county residents and 31% of the registrants on the wait list are from outside Tarrant County.
“We re going to want to figure out ways to set up sites in those surrounding counties,” Whitley said. “The thing that we re constantly trying to do is to prepare for what I hope is a tsunami of vaccines that will be coming in the next three to five weeks.”
Counties receive little notice of how many vaccines they will receive on a weekly basis, Whitley explained. Eads said all four judges are hoping to get two to three weeks of notice on the number of vaccines they will receive to allow for more staffing and better planning.
Updated on February 3, 2021 at 5:02 pm
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Dallas County is reporting 1,356 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday along with another record number of reported deaths with 50. With the latest deaths, the county has reported 228 deaths in the last seven days, an average of 33 deaths per day.
“Today I sadly report another record in deaths . as we have said, these will be our darkest months for deaths thus far, said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, while also calling on people to not lose their resolve to fighting the pandemic and to continue to avoid large gatherings, such as Super Bowl parties, and to wear masks, wash your hands and get vaccinated.