Houston Methodist COVID-19 vaccine consultations closed after filling out the consultations

HOUSTON – Houston Methodist Hospital, the largest vaccine supplier in Texas at the moment, is no longer accepting COVID-19 vaccine consultations after vacancies were filled shortly after launch on Monday.

The public registration of the vaccine was published on Monday afternoon.

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Within hours, the appointments were no longer available.

The website included a special note stating the following:

“Thank you for visiting our vaccine hub website. We had an overwhelming response and, due to the limited supply of vaccines, unfortunately we no longer have consultations available at this time.

“We continue to work with city and state authorities to identify and vaccinate our most vulnerable members of the community. We will notify the community when we can post the form again for more subscribers.

“Thank you for your patience and understanding.”

The hospital said it is prioritizing people 75 and older and 65 and older with other health problems, as well as healthcare professionals.

Roberta Schwartz, the executive vice president responsible for vaccine distribution at the hospital, said she will administer about 14,000 first doses and between 12-13,000 second doses this week.

“We are working on public registrations, patient databases and also on list 1A as we continue to vaccinate healthcare professionals,” said Schwartz.

“We are looking at … age,” she said. “Next, we went into a sort of zip code segmentation, to make sure we reached all of Houston.”

Patient databases include anyone with any connection to the Houston Methodist. Anyone who has visited the emergency room or any employed or private physician, or who has undergone any testing at a Methodist facility in Houston.

That database includes more than half a million people who qualify for the vaccine in section “1B” of the state, said Schwartz, including “more than 120,000 over the age of 75”.

“At the moment, for every vaccine we have, there are about 1,000 crying out for that vaccine,” she added. “I would like to ask everyone and beg everyone, please be patient. This is a huge process. We have hundreds of people dedicated to (that). “