Cy-Fair ISD, Fort Bend officials ask Texas to give teachers COVID vaccine priority
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Jennifer Harrison, senior director of clinical operations at the University of Texas Health Austin Dell Medical School, and Devin Kline, materials manager open the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to arrive at the hospital in Austin, Texas on Monday Dec.14, 2020. A growing chorus of education leaders and elected officials are calling on the state to give them priority to be vaccinated. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)John L. Mone, STF / Associated Press
Some Houston-area officials have joined a growing chorus of education leaders and elected representatives this week in calling on the state to put educators closer to the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccines.
COVID-19 VACCINE GUIDE: How the vaccine will be distributed in the ArkLaTex area The COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed across the country, with healthcare workers and those in long-term care facilities getting it first. (Source: KSLA) By KSLA Staff | December 15, 2020 at 10:51 AM CST - Updated December 16 at 1:17 AM
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - The COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer is arriving in states throughout the country, including in the ArkLaTex area. However, the way the vaccine will be distributed is a little different in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
Check out the guide below for how the vaccine will be distributed and who will get it first in each state.
The first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine arrived at four Texas health care facilities Monday, including the University of Texas Health Austin at the Dell Medical School.
Some Austin-area health care workers are set to receive their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine as early as 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Here s what you need to know about the vaccine rollout in Texas:
Where will the first vaccines be distributed in Texas?
In the first week of vaccine distribution, Texas was allocated 224,250 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to be shipped to 110 providers across the state.
On Monday, the first 19,500 doses of the vaccine were divided between University of Texas Health Austin, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, and Wellness 360 at UT Health San Antonio.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) ABC13, Houston s news leader, hosted a one-hour town hall Thursday, Dec. 17 (7-8 p.m.), explaining the latest developments on the COVID-19 vaccine and what it all means for those living in southeast Texas.
Eyewitness News reporter Marla Carter gathered leaders from the medical community to highlight recent decisions by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, the latest on the Texas COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan, and to answer your questions about getting vaccinated.
Panelists for the town hall included:
Bill McKeon, Texas Medical Center president and CEO
Dr. David Persse, Houston Health Authority
Dr. Mandy Hill, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Teachers, school staff should be among first vaccinated, says Fort Bend Co. Judge
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received its allocation of COVID-19 vaccine early Monday morning.
Twenty-seven hospitals in the Houston area are scheduled to receive this first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine this week.
Judge George sent a letter to Gov. Abbott asking him to consider teachers and school faculty members as part of the frontline tiers.
Right now, health care personnel and frontline workers will be among the first to receive the vaccine. They include staff at hospitals and long-term care facilities, emergency medical services, and home health care workers.