CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Corpus Christi and Nueces County officials will conduct a joint press conference at 11:30 am today to inform the public of the 4,000-dose schedule of the Modern vaccine that will arrive on Monday.
City / county health director Annette Rodriguez and other city leaders will appear at the news conference.
“This is an exciting day for Corpus Christi,” said Mayor Joe McComb. “But we are going to advise people to have a great deal of patience.”
Authorities said vaccinations are due to start at noon on Monday at the Richard Borchard Center at Fairgrounds. 1213 Terry Shamsie Blvd. in Robstown.
Registration will start online starting at 5pm on Sunday at the link to the city’s coronarivus website here. Registration will continue until the number of records assigned for the next day is reached.
When a person goes through the registration process, they will receive a QR code that will be shown to employees at the time of vaccination. You are asked to take a picture of that code and take it with you to the vaccination site. It is a unique code and cannot be shared with others.
The vaccination process will be aimed at two groups: over 65 and others over 18 with chronic diseases such as cancer, COPD, diabetes, heart problems, sickle cell disease and pregnancy.
Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales borrowed some references from “Field of Dreams,” a film she said was one of her favorites, to describe the county’s plans to distribute the vaccine.
“If you build it, they will come,” said Canales. “And the reason we built the infrastructure is the same answer that was given to Kevin Costner (” Field of Dreams “star). To relieve his pain. This is what we are doing to relieve our pain with COVID-19.”
Authorities hope to distribute 4,000 initial doses of the vaccine next week. This would then pave the way for additional doses from the state in which they are depleted.
Canales said that the Corpus Christi area was designated as “megasita”, which means that it is intended to serve those interested in receiving the vaccine from outside the municipality.
“The sad truth is that our population is more at risk than others in the state,” said Canales. “We have 50 percent more of our population 65 years or older than the rest of the state. This is very attractive. In addition, we have more people without insurance and more people with a lower average income than the rest of the state. ”
Only 500 doses of the vaccine will be available through online registration, Canales said.
The site will be closed once all 500 doses have been counted.
Another 500 doses will be reserved for those who do not have access to a computer.