Children 12 or older can receive their Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at NRG Park, Judge Hidalgo announces
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Vehicles line up at a vaccine clinic at NRG Park in Houston on Feb. 26, 2021. (KPRC)
HOUSTON – The office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced Wednesday that children 12 years of age or older can receive their Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine starting on Thursday at NRG Park.
Adolescents must have parental consent to receive the vaccine before arriving. The vaccine will be available from noon to 9 p.m. daily.
This announcement comes after U.S. health advisers endorsed the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in kids as young as 12 on Wednesday.
5 things for Houstonians to know for Thursday, May 13
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Here are things to know for Thursday, May 13:
1. Children 12 or older can receive their Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at NRG Park, Judge Hidalgo announces
The office of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced Wednesday that children 12 years of age or older can receive their Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine starting on Thursday at NRG Park.
Adolescents must have parental consent to receive the vaccine before arriving. The vaccine will be available from noon to 9 p.m. daily.
This announcement comes after U.S. health advisers endorsed the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in kids as young as 12 on Wednesday.
  Fort Bend County Judge KP George cited the silence of Greater Houston Partnership (GHP) on what he called âvoter suppressionâ bills âreminiscent of Jim Crow era tacticsâ â Texas House Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7 â in the Texas Legislature as the reason the county will not become a dues-paying member of the organization.Â
The Texas House passed Senate Bill 7 last Friday, which would limit some voting expansions utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic such as drive-through voting.Â
âAt a time in our country when we should all come together, these restrictive laws needlessly and unfairly make it more difficult for people to vote,â George wrote in a Facebook post last Thursday. âItâs simple: Cutting voting hours makes it harder to vote. Ending drive-through voting makes it harder to vote. Allowing partisan actors to film voters casting their ballot makes it harder to vote.âÂ
FOX 26 reached out to the largest vaccine providers in greater Houston to find out where parents can take children ages 12 to 15 to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo to address COVID-19 during Commissioner’s Court
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Hidalgo addressed the county’s response to the pandemic and possible actions regarding the virus.
She said the county’s threat level remains at red. Hidalgo said Harris County has some pretty significant downward trends, however, the positivity rate is around 9% but needs to get down to 5%.
“The thing that we wanna be cautious of is where the base that we’re hitting. So the cases went back up and now they’ve gone back down. But the base that we’re hitting is still slightly above the previous base that we hit before the other peak we had in December,” Hidalgo said.