Brazos County Health District receives funding for mobile COVID-19 vaccine units
The Brazos County Health District received more than half a million dollars to begin mobile COVID-19 vaccine units. Author: Erin Wencl (KAGS) Updated: 12:36 PM CDT April 21, 2021
BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas The Brazos County Health District has received over half a million dollars in funding to start up mobile COVID-29 vaccine units. This means the Brazos Valley Mobile Action Team will be able to get off the ground in just a couple of months, according to a press release from the health district.
Each team will have four nurses and two administrative assistants. The mobile units will be able to coordinate vaccine clinics in seven counties in the Brazos Valley. The total amount of the grant was nearly $785,000.
2,029 COVID-19 cases in Brazos County went unreported, District says
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Brazos County allocated over 7,000 COVID-19 vaccines for the week
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Brazos Hub to administer 8,000 COVID-19 vaccines this week, including 1C population Keep in mind, about 30% is not going to take the vaccine for various reasons. Let s say we are using a number of 200,000. 30% are not going to take it, which leaves us with 140,000 that will take it. We have gotten 50,000 vaccinated. so we are not too far from 50%, Chief Stewart added.
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BRYAN, TEXAS â Last week, Texas health officials announced residents 50 years of age and older were eligible to receive their COVID-19 shot starting Monday, March 15.
According to Texas Health and Human Services, death certificate data collected over the course of the pandemic, shows 93% of Texas fatalities directly caused by COVID-19 are in people 50 years old and older, so stretching vaccination efforts to this group is crucially-needed.