Empty chairs dot the observation area of the normally busy Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, where officials had to cancel 1,000 appointments for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and offer only Moderna shots Wednesday. Credit: Justin Rex for The Texas Tribune
Today was the day that hundreds of college students at Texas Tech University and up to 1,500 others in Lubbock, one of last year’s coronavirus hot spots, were going to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Today was also the day that some members of the Petersburg Mission Baptist Church, a Black church in the rural Texas community of Athens, were going to be fully vaccinated.