Six providers in North Texas are among the 28 “centers” in charge of the community’s large-scale COVID-19 vaccination efforts as the state works to inoculate healthcare professionals, those over 65 and people with pre-existing illnesses .
The Texas Department of Health Services said it instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to send large quantities of the first doses of the vaccine to 28 providers.
North Texas centers 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 centers are spread across Amarillo, Austin, College Station, Corpus Christi, Eagle Pass, Edinburg, 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 centers. The number of doses each hub receives will be based on the number of people that each provider has estimated it could vaccinate in a week, according to the Texas DSHS.
In addition to the centers, DSHS will distribute 38,300 doses of the vaccine to dozens of hospitals, doctors’ offices and long-term care facilities across Texas.
Texas also reserved 121,875 doses of the vaccine for the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care program, which focuses on vaccinating residents of long-term care facilities.
Vaccines distributed this week include vaccines manufactured by both Pfizer and Moderna.
To learn more about getting vaccinated in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties, click here.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say more than 30,000 people died in Texas due to COVID-19, the second largest in the country.
Johns Hopkins says that in the past two weeks, the average number of new daily cases in Texas has increased by 9,363.7, an increase of 76.9%.
After a steady increase in the past week, hospitalizations in Texas fell by 824 on Sunday to 13,111.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms that go away in weeks. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the virus can cause serious illness and be fatal.
Coronavirus cases in Texas
The locations on the map are approximate locations of counties and are not intended to identify where infected people live.
Case data obtained from a variety of sources, including county health departments, Texas State Department of Health Services, KXAN-TV in Austin and KPRC-TV in Houston.