All 1,000 new appointments at Minute Maid Park were covered shortly after they were added by the Houston Department of Health for people who meet Phase 1A or Phase 1B criteria.
Mayor Sylvester Turner said a new shipment of the Modern vaccine arrived at the Houston Department of Health earlier this week. Due to the birth, 3,600 vaccines were administered on Saturday, which is three times what was administered last Saturday at the Bayou City Event Center clinic.
“There is still a great deal of vaccination hesitation in our city,” Turner said. “I want to let people know that it’s important for them to take the vaccine. We’ve had a lot of conversations about this new variant that’s here, or variants, there could be more than one and so it’s really important now that people get this vaccine and then we get it out as soon as possible. “
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The department partnered with the Astros Foundation to operate the milestone as a COVID-19 vaccination site, but is only open to people who already have their appointments scheduled.
“This could not happen without voluntary efforts,” Twila Carter told the Astros Foundation. “It’s great to be here at Minute Maid Park today to hear the buzz of people, we know that. We’re ready to put baseball back into practice here, and the only way to do that is to get everyone vaccinated. “.
The Bayou City Event Center clinic in the health department is closed for an unrelated weekend event. Appointments initially scheduled for this facility are being met at Minute Maid Park.
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“The city of Houston is working 24 hours a day to get the COVID-19 vaccine available to the public according to available supply. Unfortunately, we do not control the supply of vaccines and we have to schedule local vaccines based on vaccine delivery,” he said. dir Turner.
He took to Twitter on Friday to clarify that the Minute Maid Park clinic is not a “mega vaccine site.”
This weekend we are partnering with the @Astros Foundation to operate Minute Maid Park as a # COVID-19[FEMININE lloc de vacunació dissabte.
NO serà un mega-lloc.
– Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner) 7 de gener de 2021
El departament de salut es posa en contacte amb les persones que hi ha a la cua de cita per informar-los de la nova ubicació i us proporcionaran instruccions sobre què fer quan arribeu. Les cites es faran fins a finals de gener en funció de l’assignació actual de vacunes del departament i no s’estan fent cites addicionals, segons la ciutat.
Les cites es basen en la disponibilitat de vacunes i les cites actuals es poden ajustar en funció de l’assignació del departament.
A partir de dijous, 7 de gener, el departament de salut va rebre un total de 13.800 dosis de vacunes i va administrar 8.169 dosis en llocs com el Bayou City Event Center juntament amb els centres de salut Northside, La Nueva Casa de Amigos, Sharpstown i Sunnyside.
El departament també va transferir 1.900 dosis a altres proveïdors. El departament de salut anunciarà oportunitats de vacunació addicionals als seus centres de salut, centres multiserveis, ubicacions comunitàries i mitjançant unitats mòbils a mesura que augmenti l’oferta.
També podeu consultar amb el vostre proveïdor d’atenció primària i la farmàcia local o amb el mapa de disponibilitat de vacunes COVID-19 del Departament d’Estats Units de Serveis de Salut de Texas.
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