A man walks along the beach in Galveston, Texas, last August. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
HOUSTON (CN) — As Galveston County gears up for throngs of beachgoing spring breakers, it’s already a destination for Covid-weary Texans signing up on its take-all-comers vaccine wait list.
“Look what I got today! Galveston County. Nice that they’re finally more available,” a 52-year-old woman tweeted Tuesday with a photo of her holding up a card showing she had received her first dose of the Moderna vaccine.
“I’m now scheduled to get the vaccine this week!!” Katie Livingood, an employee of NASA’s Johnson Space Center wrote Wednesday in a tweet directing other Galveston County residents to sign up for its wait list, which is managed by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.