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If you ve registered to be put on one provider s vaccine waitlist, you likely won t be removed if you get vaccinated somewhere else.
People in Central Texas who want to increase their chances of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 may have registered with multiple providers administering the doses. When they finally do get a shot, what happens to their names on all the other lists?
By default – nothing.
About 500,000 people have registered to receive one of the 12,000 doses Austin Public Health, a major distribution hub, gets each week. If someone no longer needs to be in the system because they ve gotten the vaccine elsewhere, they can’t remove themselves. Instead, they should simply not sign up for an appointment.
Jeffrey Warnken, right, and his wife, Sandra Warnken, who are both pharmacists, organize vaccine paperwork at 38th Street Pharmacy in Austin. The pharmacy ran out of its initial allotment of 200 Moderna vaccine doses this week. “We did not waste one dose,” Jeffery Warnken said. “I didn’t hold any back.” Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
Rannon Ching, pharmacist for Tarrytown Pharmacy in Austin, got the call at 8 a.m. on Dec. 23: Five hundred doses of the Moderna vaccine were arriving. Get ready.
“I found out two hours before the FedEx guy came,” he said. Ching frantically called some Austin senior care facilities on his way to work. Could his pharmacists come that afternoon?
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Jeffrey Warnken, right, and his wife, Sandra Warnken, who are both pharmacists, organize vaccine paperwork at 38th Street Pharmacy in Austin. The pharmacy ran out of its initial allotment of 200 Moderna vaccine doses this week. “We did not waste one dose,” Jeffery Warnken said. “I didn’t hold any back.” Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune
Rannon Ching, pharmacist for Tarrytown Pharmacy in Austin, got the call at 8 a.m. on Dec. 23: Five hundred doses of the Moderna vaccine were arriving. Get ready.
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Ora Lee Mair, 92, of the Morningside Ministries Assisted Living Facility receives a shot from pharmacist Gabriela Alfaro.Matthew Busch / Contributor
AUSTIN Rep. Michelle Beckley, D-Carrollton, doesn’t get any special access to the coronavirus vaccine just because she’s a state official.
A pre-existing condition makes her more susceptible to the virus, and that puts her in group 1B, the second tier of people on the state’s priority list for getting the vaccine.
Her priority designation follows that of group 1A first responders, health care workers and nursing home residents.
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