Six North Texas providers are among the 28 “centers” accused of large-scale community efforts to vaccinate against COVID-19 as the state works to inoculate health workers over the age of 65 and people with pre-existing conditions .
The Texas State Department of Health Services said it directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ship large quantities of the first doses of the vaccine to 28 providers.
Centers in North Texas include Dallas County Services and Health, 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 distributed between Amarillo, Austin, College Station, Corpus Christi, Eagle Pass, Edinburgh, 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 center will get will be based on the number of people each provider estimated they could vaccinate in a week, according to Texas DSHS.
In addition to the centers, DSHS will distribute 38,300 doses of the vaccine to dozens of hospitals, medical offices and long-term care centers 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 centers.
Vaccines distributed this week include those manufactured by both Pfizer and Moderna.
For more information on vaccination in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties, click here.
Below is a list of providers who receive shipments of the vaccine or click here.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say more than 30,000 people in Texas have died due to COVID-19, the second-highest 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 steadily rising last week, hospitalizations in Texas fell from 824 on Sunday to 13,111.
For most people, coronavirus causes mild to moderate symptoms that clear up in a few weeks. But for other people, especially the elderly and people with existing health problems, the virus can cause serious illness and be fatal.
Coronavirus cases in Texas
Map locations are approximate locations in counties and are not intended to identify where infected people live.
Case data comes from a variety of sources, including county health departments, the Texas State Department of Health Services, KXAN-TV in Austin, and KPRC-TV in Houston.