News Release
Jan. 4, 2021
The Texas Department of State
Health Services has instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
to ship first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to more than 949 providers in 158 Texas
counties over the next week. The CDC will deliver 167,300 doses of the vaccine
manufactured by Moderna and 37,050 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 last week and, according to the
CDC, will serve staff and residents at 770 long-term-care facilities in the next
week.
The CDC will also deliver 224,250
second doses to the providers who received vaccine the week of Dec. 14 to
complete the series for the people that were vaccinated in the first week of
vaccine distribution.
Texas has been allocated about 1.5
million first doses through the first four weeks of vaccine distribution, and
vaccine will have reached providers in a total of 214 counties by the end of
the week. DSHS has posted a vaccine provider location map that will be updated frequently. A
list of providers that will be receiving vaccine this week is available at www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week4.pdf.
DSHS encourages providers to rapidly
vaccinate priority populations against COVID-19 and promptly report doses
administered in ImmTrac2, the state’s immunization registry. While the supply
of vaccine is still limited, additional allocations of vaccine will be received
each week.
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(News Media Contact: pressofficer@dshs.texas.gov)