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Published: 19 Dec 2020 12:41 PM BdST
Updated: 19 Dec 2020 12:41 PM BdST Dr Eileen Sprys wears personal protective equipment as she walks in a parking lot to see a patient at Medical Arts Hospital in Lamesa, Texas, US, Dec 16, 2020. REUTERS
Running in between patients, Dr Eileen Sprys pauses to catch her breath, tries to gather herself, but cannot mask her frustration: The health care workers in her COVID-besieged West Texas hospital were left out of the first shipment of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, and they have no idea when they may get it. );
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Not a single rural hospital in this state that prides itself on its country roots received any doses of the vaccine this week, despite such medical outposts serving around 20% of the state s population, or 3 million people.
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5 things for Houstonians to know for Friday, Dec. 18
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Senior Airman Marisol Salgado, medical technician, administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Army Capt. Rebecca Parrish, a COVID-19 intensive care unit nurse, Dec. 17, 2020 at Brooke Army Medical Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Parrish was the first BAMC staff member to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. (U.S. Army photo by Corey Toye) (Brooke Army Medical Center)
Here are things to know for Friday, Dec. 18:
1. Former HPD captain arrested in bizarre conspiracy case unable to be arraigned due to COVID-19
Since Tuesday, there have been nationwide headlines involving former HPD Captain Mark Aguirre. The 63-year-old is accused of ramming David Zuniga, an air conditioning repairman, off the road and holding him at gunpoint.
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Moderna vaccine is life-line to rural Texas healthcare providers
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HOUSTON – Officials with the Texas Department of State Health Services anticipate receiving 460,000 vials of the Moderna vaccine next week and plan to use this vaccine to cover rural areas and smaller healthcare providers.
“They are absolutely at the end of their rope in most regions of Texas,” said John Henderson, president and CEO of the Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals. “Most of rural Texas is at capacity and can’t expand, and it’s not as much about space as it is staff and equipment. They just don’t have that capacity.”