Texas Is Tracking Who Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine
SAN ANGELO, TX – The Texas Department of State Health Services has added a new dashboard to its website as the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine continues.
The latest update shows that to date 91,659 doses have been received by vaccine providers. At least 4,187 patients have received the first dose of the vaccine across the state. The dashboard also shows 87 out of 254 counties have administered vaccine doses.
In Tom Green County, 319 people have received the first dose of the vaccine as of Friday morning. This accounts for approximately 7.6 percent of the vaccinated group so far.
STAT vaccine surplus to be used at other Laredo hospitals
Dec. 15, 2020
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Mindy Warren, employee health manager, right, prepares a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination for Robert Luckey, COVID ICU nurse, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 in Houston. A group of front line medical workers at Memorial Hermann Hospital 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
The first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are due to arrive in Laredo by Thursday or Friday, Laredo Health Authority Victor Treviño told LMT.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Arriving In Texas, First Deliveries Not Available Locally Health care workers in Texas began receiving COVID-19 vaccines this week, and the state was slated to receive 224,250 doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of the week. The deliveries began after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of Pfizer s vaccine for individuals 16 and over last week. The doses were shipped to 109 hospitals in 34 counties, but Hill County was not on the first week s distribution list released by the Department of State Health Services (DSHS). With the minimum order for the Pfizer vaccine set at 975 doses, the initial distribution was limited to larger hospitals.
Gov. Greg Abbott again vowed Thursday he will not order new business closures as single-day coronavirus cases reached a record high and hospitalizations continued to rise statewide, instead touting improved treatments and the arrival of the coronavirus vaccine in Texas. There s been no governmental leader anywhere that has been able to figure out how COVID works, he said. The fact of the matter is that it s time to put behind us shutdowns. No more shutdowns. We need to focus on opening up businesses.
His remarks came as the daily new COVID-19 case count in Texas exceeded 16,000 for the first time. Single-day coronavirus cases surpassed 15,000 twice in December, the previous highs.
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