The Paris-Lamar County Health District is gearing up for its final mass Covid-19 vaccination clinic at the Love Civic Center this week. The move comes after pausing last week because of a previously planned event at the center.
âWe have approximately 1,500 (people) needing their second dose this week. We currently have approximately 800 who have signed up through the call center wanting their first dose. Unfortunately, we are having a tough time getting those 800 to confirm that they still want the vaccine,â health district director Gina Prestridge said. âThis will be our last clinic at the Love Civic Center due to the decrease in demand at this point. We will still be giving shots, firsts and seconds, but on a smaller scale at a different location.â
For the first time in months, there will be no shipment from the state of any Covid-19 vaccine first doses to Lamar County.
The pause is temporary and just for this week as the Easton Southwest Shootout comes to Paris again, Paris-Lamar County Health District director Gina Prestridge confirmed. The shootout is hosted at the Love Civic Center, the site of Parisâs weekly vaccination hubs.
Moderna second doses that were scheduled for Friday will instead be given April 30, well within Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for second dosing, the City of Paris and the Paris-Lamar County Health District announced on Facebook. Scheduling for the April 30 clinic will begin Monday.
Paris City Council approved the sale of $46.065 million in certificates of obligation and received an update on the Paris-Lamar County Health District Covid-19 vaccine clinic at Monday nightâs meeting.
Councilors met behind closed doors with Jeffery Sockel of Chicago-based Alfred Benesch & Co., the engineering firm charged with an audit of a controversial $24 million water and sewer contract with Oscar Renda Construction. Described in the agenda as a meeting with the city attorney, Sockel was seen entering and exiting the closed door session. The council took no action after the meeting.
Bond adviser Mark McLiney with Samco Capital Markets brought the news of the sale of $46.065 million in certificates of obligation to Texas-based Hilltop Securities with a 2.216495% interest rate and a savings of $7.5 million from earlier interest projections.
The state is shipping no Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines to the Red River Valley a week after the one-dose vaccine dominated the allocations and amid a federal âpauseâ to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.
In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said it was investigating clots in six women in the days after vaccination, in combination with reduced platelet counts. More than 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine have been administered in the U.S.
U.S. federal distribution channels, including mass vaccination sites, will pause the use of the J&J shot, and states and other providers are expected to follow.
More than 2.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines are being shipped to Texas vaccine providers this week, and that means more doses for the Red River Valley.
Nearly 3,000 doses of vaccine are on the way to Lamar, Red River and Fannin counties in the 17th week of the stateâs vaccine rollout, according to Texas Department of State Health Services records, and the majority of them are manufactured by Johnson & Johnson. Previously, most local providers received Modernaâs two-shot vaccine while a few received Pfizer-BioNTechâs two-dose vaccine. Only the vaccines made by Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson have received U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency authorization.