News Release
Dec. 28, 2020
The Texas Department of State
Health Services is instructing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
to ship COVID-19 vaccine to more than 350 providers in 94 Texas counties over
the next week. The CDC will deliver 175,100 doses of the vaccine manufactured
by Moderna and 81,900 doses of the Pfizer vaccine directly to Texas providers.
An additional 121,875 doses of the
Pfizer vaccine will go to the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term
Care Program.
Vaccinations under the program started in Texas today and, according to the
CDC, will serve staff and residents at more than 300 long-term-care facilities
in the first week.
Texas has been allocated about 1.2
million doses through the first three weeks of vaccine distribution, and
vaccine will have reached providers in a total of 199 counties by the end of
the week. DSHS has posted a vaccine provider location map that will be updated weekly after
allocated doses have shipped to providers. A list of providers that will be
receiving vaccine this week is available at https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week3.pdf.
DSHS encourages providers to rapidly
vaccinate priority populations against COVID-19 and promptly report doses
administered in ImmTrac2, the state’s immunization registry. Additional allocations
of vaccine will be received each week.
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(News Media Contact: pressofficer@dshs.texas.gov)