Williamson County closed its COVID-19 vaccine waiting list at 5 p.m. Friday. Williamson County still has approximately 30,000 people on its waitlist; however, the county has found that only about 5% of the people invited to schedule an appointment are following through and making an appointment, according to a county news release. Many already have received their vaccination from another provider.
The names of people remaining on the county s waiting list will be sent to its mass vaccine provider, Curative, to schedule their vaccinations through early next week, the release said.
Another mass vaccine provider for the county, Family Hospital Systems, said it plans to close its drive-thru site at the Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex on May 12. Until then, it will only be offering second doses of the vaccine at the complex, said Jen Stratton, a hospital systems spokeswoman.
COVID-19 vaccines canceled at Kelly Reeves on Thursday due to weather
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Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell on Tuesday said the county could have 70% of its population vaccinated from COVID-19 by Memorial Day. When the county reaches the 70% vaccination rate, he said, it can close its vaccination hubs and people who need vaccines can go to pharmacies or their own doctors.
According to data from the Texas Department of Heath and Human Services, 25.7% of Williamson County s population ages 16 and older have been fully vaccinated as of Tuesday, and 41.7% have received at least one vaccine dose in the county.
Gravell said 52,000 people, or 71%, of the county s population ages 65 and older have been vaccinated. The county s population of residents ages 65 and older is estimated at 73,202.
A Williamson County judge granted a temporary restraining order on Thursday that requires the management at a low-income housing complex in Round Rock to continue paying for hotels for four tenants evicted from their freeze-damaged units.
Sandalwood Management, which runs the Townhomes at Double Creek on Louis Henna Boulevard in Round Rock, did not respond immediately to a request for comment on Thursday.
The management company issued seven-day eviction notices to residents of 44 units at the townhomes on April 1 saying the units were unusable.
The company also gave a seven-day notice to residents staying in hotels that the management company was no longer going to pay for their rooms. The deadly February Texas freeze caused the pipes to burst in the complex, damaging many units.
Molly Jensen, executive director for the Austin Tenants Council, said Lawyers were working Wednesday on a request for a temporary restraining order against Sandalwood Management, said Molly Jensen, executive director for the Austin Tenants Council. There is a clause in the Texas Property Code that allows either a tenant or a landlord to give notice of early lease termination if the unit is totally unusable due to casualty loss (disaster/storm damage); but Sandalwood tenants have been told for weeks that their units were being repaired, said Jensen. Some paid for up to a month of their own hotel costs with the assurance from property management that their units would be repaired and that their hotel expenses would be reimbursed,
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