The Rowlett City Council and Garland health officials recently discussed the distribution strategies for the COVID-19 vaccination. The federal government has deferred final vaccine distribution decisions to the state level. The first shipment of Pfizer vaccine was delivered to Texas hospitals and the Moderna vaccine is arriving this week. During its first week, Pfizer started distribution to 109 Texas hospitals in 34 counties. âThe Texas plan has three additional phases with the goal of providing vaccine access to everyone in the state by the end of next summer and continuing vaccine efforts if needed into the future like the flu vaccine,â Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator Ed Balderas said. âThe FDA did caution against using vaccine availability as justification to ease off NPI due to limited data against transmission, protection, vaccine resistance and other factors.â