A clinic is set for Tuesday at Texas Motor Speedway. But another one tentatively scheduled for Thursday is in jeopardy due to possible inclement weather.
Whitley wants to see efforts in North Texas extend beyond the four largest counties. He estimated as much as 8% of the around 200,000 vaccinations Tarrant County has distributed have been to non-county residents and 31% of the registrants on the wait list are from outside Tarrant County.
“We re going to want to figure out ways to set up sites in those surrounding counties,” Whitley said. “The thing that we re constantly trying to do is to prepare for what I hope is a tsunami of vaccines that will be coming in the next three to five weeks.”
Counties receive little notice of how many vaccines they will receive on a weekly basis, Whitley explained. Eads said all four judges are hoping to get two to three weeks of notice on the number of vaccines they will receive to allow for more staffing and better planning.
5 things to keep in mind when comparing Dallas and Denton’s COVID vaccine efforts
It’s easy to be jealous of Denton’s massive inoculation event. But there is a lot of context to keep in mind evaluating the Fair Park and Texas Motor Speedway sites.
No two Texas COVID-19 vaccine hubs are exactly the same.
With so much confusion and competition to get the life-saving doses which continue to be in short supply you’d be forgiven if while waiting for your number to be called, you get a little jealous looking over the county line to see thousands vaccinated in one fell swoop.
Dallas County adds 50 COVID-19 deaths, shattering 1-day record
County Judge Clay Jenkins urges residents in the state’s 1B category to register for vaccination in as many places as they’d be willing to drive to.
The county’s previous one-day record for fatalities was 40, set twice in the last eight days.
Twenty of the latest victims were Dallas residents. They were evenly split between men and women, and ranged in age from their 40s to 100s.
The remaining 30 victims were in their 40s to 90s and included 18 men and 12 women. Five were from Richardson, five from Mesquite, four from Garland, four from Irving, three from Carrollton, two from Duncanville, two from Grand Prairie and one each from Balch Springs, Coppell, Farmers Branch, Lancaster and Rowlett.
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Get your motors running: Texas Motor Speedway is hosting clinics to vaccinate 1,000 people per hour and 10,000 per day starting Tuesday at what will be the largest COVID-19 vaccine mega site in the state, if not the country, Denton County officials said.
TMS which sports a 131-acre parking footprint and Denton County officials have been in talks since late last week to host the three-day event, which will have 16 drive-through lanes to dispense to people with appointments around 32,000 Moderna and Pfizer vaccine doses the county is set to receive this week.
“This is the largest drive-through clinic we know of in the state and, possibly, the U.S.,” Denton County Judge Andy Eads said in a news release. “It is an ambitious undertaking but one the Denton County Commissioners Court feels good about with the help of more than 400 county staff, volunteers, fire and police personnel from our surrounding communities, CoSe