Six North Texas providers are among 28 ‘hubs’ charged with large-scale COVID-19 vaccination efforts as the state works to vaccinate health workers over the age of 65 and people with pre-existing conditions.
The Texas Department of Health Services said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent large quantities of the first doses of the vaccine to the 28 providers.
The hubs in North Texas include Dallas County Health and Human Services, Parkland Hospital, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Denton County Public Health, Tarrant County Public Health and Texas Health Resources in Fort Worth.
The remaining 22 hubs are distributed among Amarillo, Austin, College Station, Corpus Christi, Eagle Pass, Edinburgh, El Paso, Houston, Laredo, Lubbock, San Antonio, San Benito, Temple, Tyler and Waco.
The state will distribute 158,825 first doses of the vaccine to the 28 hubs. The number of doses each hub receives will be based on the number of people each provider estimates it can vaccinate within a week, according to Texas DSHS.
In addition to the hubs, DSHS will distribute 38,300 doses of vaccine to dozens of hospitals, doctors’ offices and long-term care facilities in Texas.
Texas has also reserved 122875 doses of the vaccine for the federal pharmacy long-term care program, which focuses on vaccinating residents of long-term care facilities.
The vaccines distributed this week include those manufactured by both Pfizer and Moderna.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say more than 30,000 people in Texas have died from COVID-19, the second highest in the country.
Johns Hopkins says over the past two weeks, the moving average number of daily new cases in Texas has increased by 9,363.7, an increase of 76.9%.
After rising steadily over the past week, hospitalizations in Texas fell by 824 to 13,111 on Sunday.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms that clear up within weeks. But for others, especially older adults and people with pre-existing health problems, the virus can cause serious illness and be fatal.
Coronavirus cases in Texas
Places on the map are provincial places and are not meant to identify where any infected people live.
Case data comes from a variety of sources, including provincial health departments, the Texas Department of Health Services, KXAN-TV in Austin, and KPRC-TV in Houston.