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On Tuesday’s Houston Matters: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo says a new online system should make getting a COVID-19 vaccine less like The Hunger Games. We learn how it ll work.
Also this hour: Houston City Controller Chris Brown takes your questions about the city’s finances.
Then Jenn White talks about her work hosting the public radio show 1A (which can be heard weekdays at 11 a.m. on News 88.7).
And we preview the drive-in screenings and virtual events as the Sundance Film Festival comes to Houston Jan. 28–Feb. 2.
Porsa said patients whose appointments are being cancelled will be contacted by Harris Health.
ABC13 asked Houston Health Authority Dr. David Persse about the Harris Health System s lack of supply and said it largely is due in part to those making the vaccine. It sounds like it s really the limit of manufacturer, explained Persse. Moderna and Pfizer are both ramping up production, so that s going to take a little while. I don t know exactly when. I m told it s six to eight weeks, maybe, that the amount of vaccines available to the United States as a whole, and therefore each individual state will increase.
Harris County Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Waitlist
Residents can start putting their name on the list by Tuesday afternoon, according to Harris County officials. The new vaccine waitlist will not be first-come, first-served people can sign up any time, and certain residents will be prioritized and chosen through randomization.
January 25, 2021, 3:11 PM
A droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I.
Harris County is launching a new vaccine waitlist Tuesday that will allow eligible residents to sign up and be contacted when vaccine appointments become available.
By Jason Hall
Jan 22, 2021
A former Houston area health department doctor is accused of stealing nine doses of coronavirus vaccine from a damaged vial and giving it to friends and family members.
Dr. Hasan Gokal has been charged with theft by a public servant, which is a Class A Misdemeanor and carries up to a year in jail, as well as a $4,000 fine if convicted, according to a news release from the Office of Harris County, Texas District Attorney
Kim Ogg.
Gokal reportedly stole the vial containing nine doses of the COVID-19 vaccine while working at the Harris County Public Health vaccination site at Lyndsay Lyons Park in Humble, Texas on December 29, 2020. A fellow Harris County Public Health employee reported Gokal s alleged actions to supervisors a week later.
A doctor in Harris County, Texas, has been accused of taking a vial of Covid-19 vaccine for his personal use. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Thursday that Dr Hasan Gokal was being charged with theft by a public servant after allegedly stealing a vial of the vaccine containing nine doses. The vaccine theft allegedly happened on December 29, when Gokal was working at the county vaccination site at Lyndsay Lyons Park in Humble,.