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Two people were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after they fell about 12 feet at a construction site in downtown Austin, according to local emergency officials.  Austin-Travis County EMS officials said they received a call about the incident, which occurred near the intersection of East 17th and Brazos streets, around 2:51 p.m. Wednesday.  The two people, who were identified as adults, were taken to Dell Seton Medical Center to be treated for their injuries.  No further information was available Wednesday. 

'History in the making:' COVID-19 vaccinations begin Marina Starleaf Riker, Sig Christenson, Jeremy Blackman, Staff writers Dec. 15, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 21 1of21Department of Diagnostic Medicine assistant instructor Dr. Stephen Pan gets the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Dell Medical School at UT Austin, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Three hundred people were expected to get their first of two vaccines today.Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of21Medical staff wait in line to get their Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Dell Medical School at UT Austin, Tuesday, Dec. 15,...

Skip to main content Currently Reading COVID-19 vaccine given to health care workers Austin, now among the first in Texas to get the shot FacebookTwitterEmail Jennifer Harrison, senior director of clinical operations at the University of Texas Health Austin Dell Medical School, and Devin Kline, materials manager open the first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to arrive at the hospital in Austin, Texas on Monday Dec.14, 2020. The facility received almost 3,000 doses and was among the first four hospitals in Texas to receive a shipment. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)John L. Mone/Associate...

“We noticed in the first week here,” he said. "It was very clear right from the get-go of the epidemic that there is a disproportionate impact that is occurring here … on communities of color and amongst vulnerable occupational categories." Snehal Patel, Dell Medical School Patel, who has been gathering intake data from Dell Seton Medical Center, said nine of the first 10 COVID patients who came in were Latino. In the first three months, he said, a whopping 78% of Dell Seton’s COVID patients were Latino. The majority spoke Spanish as their primary language. And when broken down by occ...