How one Facebook group is helping people find vaccines for loved ones
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HOUSTON – A Facebook group known as Vaccinate Houston is helping people find vaccines for their loved ones.
“We’re allowing everyone in who agrees to the rules,” said Laurie DesAutels, creator of Vaccinate Houston- COVID-19 Vaccine Updates. “It started as something small and now it’s becoming something where people are helping each other. I’m not really doing much.”
DesAutels said she started the group over concern about getting the vaccine for her 74-year old mother vaccinated, but it’s turned into a group that as of Monday has nearly 13,000 members.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) Houstonians actively searching for COVID-19 vaccine appointments were surprised to find some availability rolling out at local pharmacies.
This bit of good news comes even as COVID-19 variants found in South Africa and United Kingdom are now confirmed to be in the Greater Houston region.
The Houston Health Department said the two cases of the UK variant were both men in their 50s. One of them traveled overseas in late December and into January, while travel info of the other case was not immediately disclosed. One of the men is in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Houstonians who have scoured the internet for vaccine appointments got some good news Monday.