United Way for Greater Austin, St. David s Foundation and Austin Community Foundation have awarded $415,000 in grants to 19 local organizations to increase coronavirus vaccination rates among underserved and rural populations in Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties.
Many of the grants were given to minority-based organizations that are reaching communities of color.
The $500,000 fund was created by monies pooled by Austin Community Foundation and St. David s Foundation and is managed by United Way for Greater Austin. In addition to the grant money, the fund will provide $100,000 in staffing and resources to the grantees to help them create shared best practices and eventually a playbook for this type of work.
You also can schedule a same-day appointment by going to CVS.com.
Not every location is a vaccination site; there are 800 vaccine locations in Texas, and 8,300 stores in 49 states and Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.. We recommend calling ahead to your local CVS or going online at CVS.com to see which locations have appointments available for that day before you show up.
The CVS.com site s vaccine appointment scheduler also gives you useful information such as which vaccine is at which location. That s especially important for people who are 16 or 17 years old because only the Pfizer vaccine has emergency use authorization from the FDA for that age group. If a 16- or 17-year-old shows up to a site with a Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine, they cannot get vaccinated.
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas has received a $2.26 million gift from Eric and Shanna Bass to study the impact of its health care approach on patient outcomes and costs.
Eric Bass, a hedge fund manager in Houston, earned his bachelor s degree in business administration from the McCombs School of Business at UT in 1998. He has an interest in improving the business of health care.
Through its foundation, the Bass family previously provided a $1 million donation to Comp-U-Dopt to give 5,000 computers to students in need at the beginning of the pandemic and another $1 million donation to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to provide housing for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey.
• Limit volunteers and visitors.
• For day camps, have strict policies around staying home when someone is sick or is exposed to someone who is sick.
• Contract tracing and other plans for when a case is suspected or confirmed and isolating suspected cases for overnight camps.
How do you know your camp s plan?
Check the camp s website. Their plan should be posted and many will have a full section just on COVID-19 precautions.
Then start asking questions. If the camp was open last year, how did they handle safety protocols? How many campers and staff became sick? What did they learn from last year that they will put into place this year?
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