Dallas County stepping up efforts to vaccinate underserved areas
Dallas County stepping up efforts to vaccinate underserved areas
With Dallas County nearly caught up on its waitlist, efforts are now targeting specific zip codes and underserved areas.
DALLAS - A large amount of COVID vaccines are available to Texans this week.
The head of the CDC said on Monday that vaccine sites are keeping seniors across the U.S. from catching serious cases of COVID-19.
More than 75% of those 65 and older have gotten at least one dose and nearly 55% are fully vaccinated. But there is a surge in cases nationally among younger adults.
How one company can test up to 50,000 Texans a day for COVID-19 for free, without a nose swab
The company started this year as a sepsis diagnostics company, but as the pandemic spread across the U.S., Curative’s founders pivoted to create an oral COVID-19 test.
Curative Incorporated employees perform contact free Covid testing in the parking lot of Globe Life Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Saturday, December 19, 2020. Patients dropped their test in a biohazard test collection container to complete the process.(Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
In the early days of the pandemic, COVID-19 tests were hard to find in North Texas and results would often take several days to receive.