COVID-19 vaccine doses are arriving in Texas this week, giving weary health care workers hope after months of peril
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The first doses of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine are set to hit Texas soil on Monday, bringing hope to a virus-ravaged state even as the daily death toll soars to its highest point since the pandemic first swept the nation nearly a year ago.
Arriving at health care facilities around Texas after winning federal approval for emergency use on Friday, nearly a quarter-million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will start being injected into the arms of front-line medical workers who volunteer for the shot. Trucks carrying the doses began pulling out of Pfizer s Michigan manufacturing facility on Sunday, according to news reports.
Social distancing and other contagion protocols are difficult behind bars, but an investigation by WFAA and The Marshall Project showed that the spread of COVID-19 behind bars was also due to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice s lackluster response, potentially exacerbating outbreaks and putting surrounding communities at risk.
The agency s website lists the prisoners who have died from the virus. Below is a list of those people, including Campos.
Among the list are four people who officials removed from the agency s official county of coronavirus-related deaths, even though they had tested positive for the disease. Those four are: Nichole Perez, Floyd Thomas Scott, Matthew Clayton Pouncey and Elias Villanueva, Jr.