Requests for state resources show Valley on brink of disaster amid pandemic brownsvilleherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brownsvilleherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
More than a dozen healthcare workers vaccinated for COVID-19 at Mission Regional Medical Center
3 months 2 weeks 10 hours ago
Thursday, December 17 2020
Dec 17, 2020
December 17, 2020 6:38 PM
December 17, 2020
in
News - Local
Share:
About 2,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived at Mission Regional Medical Center on Thursday, as part of the state s first round for frontline workers.
Mission Regional Medical Center Nurse Gabby Garibay was the first to get vaccinated.
Garibay said she trusts the science behind the vaccine.
Garibay worked throughout the peak of the Valley s COVID-19 spike in the summer. During the spike nurses took on triple patient loads as three-quarters of the hospital were set aside for coronavirus patients.
COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Texas hard-hit border areas
By Karen Brooks Harper and Julian Aguilar/The Texas Tribune
Published
EL PASO, Texas - Hospitals in some of Texas hardest-hit border counties began vaccinating health care workers against COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing what one health authority called cautious hope to a heavily Hispanic, economically distressed region whose communities have been traumatized by infections and deaths at disproportionately high rates throughout the pandemic.
Some 15,600 doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine arrived Tuesday at hospitals in El Paso and Edinburg, and more will land in Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville and El Paso later this week.
The Gilmer Mirror - As COVID 19 vaccine arrives in Texas hard hit border areas experts warn vaccinated people could still spread virus gilmermirror.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gilmermirror.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Texas’ hard-hit border areas, experts warn vaccinated people could still spread virus
Texas Tribune
Published:
Updated:
Tags:
EL PASO Hospitals in some of Texas’ hardest-hit border counties began vaccinating health care workers against COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing what one health authority called “cautious hope” to a heavily Hispanic, economically distressed region whose communities have been traumatized by infections and deaths at disproportionately high rates throughout the pandemic.
Some 15,600 doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine arrived at hospitals on Tuesday in El Paso and Edinburg, and more will land in Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville and El Paso later this week.