H-E-B accepting appointments for COVID-19 vaccines
H-E-B launched its COVID-19 vaccine registration website Wednesday, and opened up appointments to groups 1A and 1B.
Group 1A includes healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities. Group 1B includes folks 65 years and older as well as anyone 18 years and older with chronic medical conditions.
To make an appointment, visit vaccine.heb.com or call 1-800-811-8620. Phone calls will be received from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in English and Spanish.
When using the website, you’ll first select which group you belong to, either 1A or 1B. This will lead you to a portal with a list of vaccine locations.
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Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks as the company races to deploy its COVID-19 vaccine,
Reuters reported.
[1] The hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers,
Reuters’ sources said. They then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code. The hacking attempts targeted “a broad set of people,” including staff working on COVID-19 research, according to one of
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