HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) The one-story red brick home that used to sit near the intersection of Cheeves Drive and Caddo Road in northeast Houston brought Lloyd Nelms family together for decades.
It s the house where everyone gathered when his great-grandmother died in 1994. A year later, relatives from California, Minnesota, Illinois and Louisiana took over the neighborhood for a family reunion. When Nelms parents died, it s the house he inherited and where he gathered every Sunday after church with his nieces and nephews.
But as storm after storm kept wearing Nelms home down, he said he decided to apply for the city s Minor Critical Emergency Home Repair Program in 2016. As he waited for help, Hurricane Harvey hit in August 2017.
On Thursday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee gathered at Texas Southern University to celebrate the launch of the school’s new coronavirus vaccine clinic. The vaccination center on TSU’s campus is being managed by St. Luke’s hospital with the hope that it’ll become a local leader for getting vaccines to Houstonians of color.
Thursday’s event came after a hectic Tuesday for the new clinic, which was bombarded with eager Houstonians desperately searching for vaccine shots after Democratic State Sen. Borris Miles incorrectly tweeted out that no appointments were needed for the clinic and that there was no age requirement to get a free dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is establishing a mass COVID-19 community vaccination site in Houston, and it is expected to open to eligible members of the public in two weeks.