UT nursing and pre-med students started signing up via email in mid-December to help administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health care workers including nurses, doctors and surgeons.
UT Austin School of Nursing student Emily Houston holds a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for COVID-19.
Rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has gotten off to a slow and frustrating start for some people in Texas. There’s been confusion about who is eligible to get the vaccine, eligible folks have had difficulty finding providers, and the pace has been much slower than originally promised by state officials.
Here are some answers to questions we’ve heard a lot lately.
What s the process for distributing the vaccine in Texas?
The state has created a plan that largely relies on private health care providers to do the legwork.