Abbott said Texas expects to see an additional 310,000 first doses per week for the rest of January and up to 500,000 second doses for those who already received the first dose of the vaccine in prior weeks. Continued increases are expected, Abbott said, depending on the federal government allotments.
Texas Health Commissioner John Hellerstedt said the rate and scale of the state's rollout has been"a really amazing operation" and said the creation of the hubs would ratchet up the rate of administration."Our goal is, by the end of the week, we have no vaccines left," Tarrant County Judge B. Glen Whitley said.
Like most other states, the initial rollout of the vaccine came with some confusion and logistical challenges. Hospitals, pharmacies and health centers had to build new scheduling systems from scratch and struggled to keep up with the"anxious public wondering when their turn for the shot will come."When Texas announces the open vaccination to the second group--those over the age of 65 or people 16 or older with certain health conditions, many health providers were caught off guard.
During the first week, December 14, the state allocated 224,250 doses for 110 providers. In the second week, December 21, about 620,000 doses of Moderna andvaccines were allocated to more than 1,100 providers in 185 counties. These vaccines were for people in phase 1A, mostly doctors and health care workers. By the third week, December 28, 257,000 doses were supplied to more than 350 providers in 94, with an additional 121,875 Pfizer doses to long-term care facilities.
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