Texas falls short, again, of the pandemic record for COVID-19 hospitalizations, while daily deaths are expected to continue rising for several more days.
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By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune Jan. 8, 2021
More than two dozen hospitals in rural Texas, from the Panhandle to South Texas, are still waiting on doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to distribute to their front-line workers and community members, hospitals and health care advocates say.
Those that are lucky enough to be near another provider with shots available are relying on neighborly generosity encouraged but not mandated by the state to inoculate front-line workers, who are sometimes dealing with overflow patients from urban areas alongside their own coronavirus patients.
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But many small, rural providers don t have neighbors with doses to spare, leaving them waiting or scrambling to find vaccine for their most high-risk front-line health workers, even as other counties have reportedly distributed excess vaccine doses to politicians and healthy members of the public.
More than two dozen of Texas’ rural hospitals haven’t received any COVID-19 vaccines
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Tags: David Lee, chief executive officer at Otto Kaiser Memorial Hospital in Kenedy speaks with staff in the ER. Lee said they are are luckier than many to have the local H-E-B pharmacy and hospitals in Cuero and Floresville that were willing to help inoculate a few dozen workers at his hospital.
Credit: Chris Stokes for The Texas Tribune
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Those that are lucky enough to be near another provider with shots available are relying on neighborly generosity encouraged but not mandated by the state to inoculate front-line workers, who are sometimes dealing with overflow patients from urban areas alongside their own coronavirus patients.