Texas announces sites for next COVID-19 vaccine shipment

Health officials in Texas on Sunday released a list of the “vaccination centers” for the coronavirus that will receive the state’s next shipment of vaccines.

According to the Texas Department of Public Health, the 28 hubs will receive 158,825 doses of the vaccine this week. Another 38,300 doses will go to other providers in the state.

The number of doses each provider receives is based on its own estimate of how many people it can vaccinate per week, DSHS said.

The hubs are meant to simplify large-scale vaccination, as Texas continues to increase people who are health workers, people 65 and older, and those who have medical conditions.

The 28 hubs for this week are located in some of the state’s largest metropolitan areas, as well as the Rio Grande Valley and more rural regions.

At the announcement of the plan last week, DSHS said the hubs would need to set up phone numbers and websites for registration and to focus on the most vulnerable communities in their regions. Contact information for the hubs can be found here.

Here are the 28 hubs, followed by their country and how many doses they receive:

• Bell County Public Health District, Bell, 3,900
• San Antonio Metro Health District, Bexar, 9,000
• University Health System, Bexar, 10 725
• CHI St. Joseph College Station Hospital, Brazos, 1 200
• Public Health of Cameron County, Cameron, 6000
• Dallas County Health and Human Services, Dallas, 6,000
• Parkland Hospital, Dallas, 6,825
• UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, 10,000
• Denton County Public Health, Denton, 3,500
• El Paso Fire Department, El Paso, 5,000
• El Paso University Medical Center, El Paso, 5,000
• Harris County Public Health, Harris, 8,000
• Houston Department of Health, Harris, 8,000
• Houston Methodist Hospital, Harris, 10 725
• Renaissance Medical Hospital, Hidalgo, 6,500
• Hidalgo County Health and Human Services, Hidalgo, 5,000
• City of Lubbock Department of Health, Lubbock, 5,000
• Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center, Maverick, 1,200
• Waco-McLennan County Public Health District, McLennan, 1,500
• Ascension Providence Hospital, McLennan, 1,500
• Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District, Nueces, 4,000
• Amarillo Department of Public Health, Potter, 5,000
• Northeast Texas Public Health District, Smith, 1,500
• UT Health Science Center Tyler, Smith, 1,500
• Public Health in Tarrant County, Tarrant, 9,000
• Texas Health Resources, Tarrant, 10,050
• Austin Public Health, Travis, 12,000
• City Health Department Laredo, Webb, 1,200

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