Six providers in North Texas are among 28 “hubs” in charge of large-scale community vaccination efforts COVID-19, while the state works to inoculate health workers, those over 65 and people with pre-existing conditions.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said it directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to send large quantities of the first doses of vaccine to the 28 providers.
Centers in North Texas 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 other 22 hubs are spread 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 vaccine to the 28 centers. The number of doses each hub receives will be based on the number of people each provider might estimate they could vaccinate in a week, according to Texas DSHS.
In addition to the hubs, DSHS will distribute 38,300 doses of vaccine to dozens of hospitals, medical practices and long-term care facilities in Texas.
Texas has also set aside 121,875 doses of vaccine for the federal pharmaceutical partnership program for the long-term care program, which focuses on vaccinating residents in long-term care facilities.
Vaccines distributed this week include those manufactured by both Pfizer and Moderna.
To learn more about vaccination in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties, click here.
Find the list of providers receiving vaccine shipments below or click here.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say more than 30,000 people in Texas have died from COVID-19, the second largest in the country.
Johns Hopkins says that in the last two weeks, the average continuous number of new daily cases in Texas has increased by 9,363.7, an increase of 76.9%.
After a steady rise in the last week, hospitalizations in Texas fell 824 on Sunday to 13,111.
For most people, coronavirus causes mild to moderate symptoms that clear up in a few weeks. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the virus can cause serious illness and can be fatal.
Coronavirus cases in Texas
The locations on the map are approximate county locations and are not intended to identify places where infected people live.
Case data were extracted from a variety of sources, including county health departments, the Texas Department of State Health Services, KXAN-TV in Austin and KPRC-TV in Houston.