Pfizer’s initial doses of the vaccine were shipped via UPS, and FedEx to 23 sites in four major Texas cities. Methodist Dallas Medical Center was the first DFW hospital to receive the vaccine and have already vaccination over 5,850 employees.
Texas Department of State Health Services expects to receive 620,400 doses of covid-19 vaccine to more than 1,100 providers in week 2 of vaccine distribution. The following facilities, UT Health San Antonio, UT Health Austin Dell Medical School and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The list of facilities grew the first week of vaccine distribution and now includes 19 major Healthcare Centers in Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Edinburg, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston Lubbock, Temple, Tyler, and Dallas.
A startling 1.4 million doses of the Covid-19 Vaccine is expected in Texas by year end according to Governor Abbott’s report from the Center for Disease Control. That number is a million more than the number of reported positive Covid-19 cases, however the number continues to grow at this time.
For those people currently in the hospital, in a long term care facility or healthcare workers, the vaccine cannot arrive soon enough. For those of us, like me, who are healthy, have no symptoms or have not been ill, and are not immune- compromised it could be three to six months before the vaccine will be available.
At the present time it is highly recommended that older adults, healthcare workers and people with compromised immune systems be vaccinated.
For the latest updates, you can visit: https://dshs.state.tx.us/coronavirus
