Rural areas are being left behind when it comes to distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine through the state’s hub system, a fact that Texas Department of State Health Services officials hope to change.
Texas health officials provide update on COVID-19 vaccine allocation, distribution
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HOUSTON – The Texas Department of State Health Services provided a media briefing on COVID-19 vaccine allocation and distribution Thursday.
Imelda Garcia, associate commissioner for Laboratory and Infectious Disease Services and chair of the Expert Vaccine Allocation Panel and Saroj Rai, PhD science adviser, spoke at the event.
Watch the full live stream of the event in the video above as soon as it is processed.
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Texas will require providers to report race data on vaccine recipients
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Robert Luckey, COVID ICU Nurse, receives the hospital s first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston. Front line workers at Memorial Hermann were some of the first to receive the recently approved vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine was almost 95 percent effective at preventing patients from contracting COVID-19 and caused no major side effects in a trial of nearly 44,000 people. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)Brett Coomer, MBO / Associated Press
Texas health officials announced Thursday they will begin requiring health care providers to report race and ethnicity data for COVID-19 vaccine recipients.
Texas surpasses 2 million virus vaccinations as it also tops 2 million infections
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Thursday that Texas had surpassed two million Covid-19 vaccinations. That milestone occurs nearly two weeks after Texas hit the one million mark.
However, it also comes as Texas simultaneously surpasses two million confirmed Covid-19 infections in the state. The rise in cases comes despite a recent decrease in hospitalizations. In addition, more than 35,100 people in Texas have died from the virus, according to DSHS.
One out of every 13 Texans over the age of 16 has now been vaccinated against Covid-19, officials said at a virtual news conference.