After winter weather forced major COVID-19 vaccines to close last week, Dallas and Tarrant counties suffered another setback as the state announced it would reduce its doses to zero this week for Dallas County Health and Human Services and Tarrant County Public. Health.
Other hubs in the counties, such as Parkland Hospital in Dallas and Texas Health in Fort Worth, will still receive large amounts of the vaccine.
‘We have people waiting on the list since January to get a vaccine,
so we need them not to mess with North Texas vaccine, ‘said Dallas judge Clay Jenkins.
The move by the state comes after partnerships with FEMA were announced in both provinces.
This week, FEMA launches vaccines in Dallas’ Fair Park and
Arlington’s Globe Life Field. Both sites will vaccinate 21,000 people a week for three weeks and are set to vaccinate those in postcodes that provide service.
Health and Human Services in Dallas County
Glen Whitley, a judge in the county of Tarrant, said he was assured that the state’s stock of vaccine would not be cut before agreeing to the FEMA partnership.
“It’s pretty disappointing,” Whitley said. “We do everything we said we wanted to do and we just want the state to act and do what they agreed to when we agreed to be a FEMA website.”
Whitley said the state movement this week cut 16,000 vaccines from their expected allocation and that they had to scramble to other vaccination sites.
Late Monday, Whitley said Texas Health Resources had agreed to give 5,000 of their doses to the health department to vaccinate more people from the waiting list in the country.
Jenkins said the state’s decision means at least 9,000 fewer people will be vaccinated this week than they expected. He said the decision of the state also affects the vaccination grants at other vaccination sites in the country.
“The state is getting a record amount of vaccine this week. We are not asking for more than we are getting. We are just asking what citizens are getting each week,” Jenkins said.
NBC 5 issued the Texas Department of State Health Services and the government of Gregg Abbott for insight into the decision and received the following statement from a DSHS spokesman.
“The vaccine awarded to the Dallas and Tarrant counties is roughly equal to the past few weeks if the doses associated with the FEMA effort are included. With a windfall of more than 84,000 doses going to just three provinces, the panel of expert vaccines has recommended sending additional doses to parts of the state that have not yet received as many vaccines, in line with its principle of vaccination to distribute fairly across the state. . This has enabled us to award vaccine to 230 provinces for next week, most of any week so far.
“Vaccination is given week-by-week, and the amount of vaccine available changes each week.“
Both Whitley and Jenkins reached out to the health department and the governor’s office to lodge an appeal.
Want to use on a vaccination waiting list?
As the state began distributing the COVID-19 vaccines to those in Phases 1A and 1B, the health department in the country began launching waiting lists for those who wanted to be vaccinated.
You can now register to receive the vaccination in the provinces of Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant. Links are below:
Waiting list links: Collin – Search Waiting List | Dallas | Denton | Tarrant
You do not have to be a resident of the country to register for a COVID-19 vaccine in that country – registration is available to anyone in Texas. For those without Internet access, Tarrant County also takes registrations by phone at 817-248-6299. In Dallas County, you can call the DCHHS Vaccination Point at 1-855-IMMUNE9 (1-855-466-8639). In Denton County, call 940-349-2585.