Here are COVID-19 vaccine registration events in Dallas County
On Saturday morning, Dallas ISD will hold drive thru registration events at three campuses. Dallas County has also opened a call center that operates 7 days a week. Author: WFAA Staff Updated: 7:36 PM CST February 5, 2021
As local leaders work to get more residents, especially those in minority communities, signed up to be vaccinated, efforts around registration assistance are ramping up.
In addition to the events listed below, Dallas County has opened a bilingual call center to help people register for the vaccine
The call center is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week. To reach the center 1-855-IMMUNE9 (1-855-466-8639).
Vaccine equity and the increasing efforts to reach minority communities
State and national surveys show that minorities continue to receive COVID-19 vaccinations at rates substantially less than their white counterparts. Author: Kevin Reece Updated: 11:11 PM CST February 4, 2021
DALLAS Faced with the stark reality that, both locally and nationwide, minorities are not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in numbers proportionate to their populations, city and county leaders are doubling government and community efforts to make sure everyone gets their place in line. We need help. We need the churches, the PTA, said Dallas City Councilman Tennell Atkins shortly after returning from a Thursday COVID-19 vaccination registration drive at Singing Hills Recreation Center.
Dallas has 10 COVID vaccine registration sites. See where they are and when they’re open
The majority of nearly a dozen temporary registration sites are in southern Dallas.
Noemi Gonzalez (right), Senior Secretary to Commissioner Elba Garcia, helps Maria Dominguez register for a COVID-19 vaccine at a Pollo Campero location on N. Cockrell Hill Road on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Dallas. The registration drive-through event, organized by Oak Cliff activist Leslie Cannon, took place in the 75211 zip code, which has been heavily affected during the pandemic. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas Morning News)(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
The city of Dallas announced on Thursday almost a dozen grocery stores, recreation centers and other sites where people can get help signing up for a COVID-19 vaccine.
The battle of the memos continued at City Hall on Thursday with more accusations of playing politics flying between Mayor Eric Johnson and council members over the question of how to ensure fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to Black, Hispanic and other neighborhoods typically shorted on services.
The latest round ended with the mayor agreeing to council members call for more effort from the city to get people of color registered to get a shot, but not before the mayor and council members traded a different kind of shots, exposing bad blood between the mayor and others on the council.