Vaccinations for people in the 1A and 1B groups who have confirmed appointments began receiving vaccines Thursday at the drive-through vaccination site set up at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. City officials said Thursday the goal was to vaccinate as many as 200-people per hour.
Still, he was quick to say it’s not a done deal. Though Jenkins was optimistic a plan like this would fit under President Biden’s new plan to increase the number of vaccinations, he said it’s not yet been reviewed or approved.
Jenkins highlighted other changes and upgrades to the vaccine signup system in Dallas County including a multi-million dollar investment by the county for a bilingual call center to help people who are struggling to register for the vaccine online.
COVID-19 Bulletin (01/26/20)
ICU beds are full across the state, but nearly 90,000 doses of the vaccine are headed to DFW this week.
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January 25, 2021
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Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins reported 1,698 new cases and 22 deaths. “These are encouraging trends and I hope these numbers continue to go down. We received another 9,000 doses of vaccine this week and vaccinated thousands more at Fair Park today,” he tweeted.
Due to coronavirus concerns, Gov. Greg Abbot is set to forego a large crowd and deliver his state of the state speech on live television, from a small business in Austin according to a report from
Updated on January 22, 2021 at 9:02 pm
Dallas County is reporting 2,065 new COVID-19 cases Friday along with 31 more deaths.
The county said 1,139 COVID-19 patients were being treated for COVID-19 in county hospitals through Thursday night. They also reported 500 ER visits Thursday for people with COVID-19 symptoms. On Friday morning, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted there were 37 adult ICU beds available as of Jan. 21, 21 more than the day before.
Of the cases reported Friday, the county said 1,843 were confirmed cases and 222 were probable (antigen test) cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the county from March 2020 to 215,443 and the number of probable (antigen test) cases to 28,283. The total of confirmed and probable cases in the county is now at 243,726. Over the last seven reporting days, Dallas County officials have announced 16,104 new confirmed and probable cases of the virus for an average of 2,301 per day.
The vaccine supply comes two weeks after Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson requested doses directly from the state. Author: David Goins (WFAA) Updated: 6:48 PM CST January 22, 2021
DALLAS The City of Dallas will join with Dallas County as a provider of COVID-19 vaccines starting next week.
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said the city will receive 5,000 doses from the Texas Department of State Health Services and open up the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center to administer the doses using an appointment-based, drive-up system.
The convention center was used in late December to administer 2,000 doses to Dallas police and firefighters.
The doses coming next week will be the first the city administers to the public eligible to receive the vaccine, the 1B group of people over the age of 65 or with an underlying condition.