3 more hospitals in North Texas will receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday
Parkland, UT-Southwestern, and Texas Health Harris Methodist in Fort Worth are among the hospitals that expect to receive the vaccine Tuesday. Author: Chris Sadeghi (WFAA), Jozelyn Escobedo (WFAA) Published: 7:02 AM CST December 15, 2020 Updated: 7:02 AM CST December 15, 2020
Nineteen hospitals in Texas are expected to receive shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. Four hospitals, including Methodist Dallas Medical Center, received and administered the vaccine to frontline staff Monday.
Parkland, UT-Southwestern, and Texas Health Harris Methodist in Fort Worth are among the hospitals in North Texas that expect to receive the vaccine Tuesday.
Tarrant County prepares for first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines
Hospitals like Harris Methodist, Cook Children s and JPS will be among the first to receive thousands of doses Author: Lauren Zakalik Updated: 6:10 PM CST December 14, 2020
FORT WORTH, Texas By the end of this week, some Tarrant County hospitals will have received between 18,000 and 20,000 doses of Pfizer’s brand-new COVID-19 vaccine.
“Everyone s excited,” said Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley. “The end may be in sight.”
And Whitley says the doses will keep coming, saying next week the county could see significantly more.
“It could be 30,000 to 40,000 vaccines,” he said.
Like we saw in Dallas Monday, the first shots in Tarrant County will be going to hospital workers: nurses, doctors and supporting staff. In total this week, the Dallas Fort Worth Hospital Council says more than 50,000 medical staff will be vaccinated.
The ever-narrowing collision course of the COVID-19 pandemic and a vaccine can’t get here quick enough. This week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Tweeted that distribution of the Pfizer vaccine should begin as early as Dec. 14 and 7,200 providers, including major retail pharmacies, have already been selected.
Climbing hospitalization rates continue to stress the medical system. As of Dec. 9, there are active outbreaks at 101 long-term care facilities in Dallas County alone, making next week feel a painful distance away.
UT Southwestern recently updated its COVID-19 modeling for Dallas and Tarrant counties, and the average volume for hospitalizations is 65% higher than a month ago. In just the past two weeks (through Dec. 4), COVID-19 hospitalizations had increased 14% from the previous two weeks.