AUSTIN Lobbying to get to the front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine in Texas is underway.
Leaders representing major industries airlines, energy, food processing, even Uber and DoorDash are asking Texas to give their workers early access to the limited supply of shots. Also calling for priority are teachers unions and groups representing people with diabetes, cystic fibrosis and other serious medical conditions.
Some sectors such as convenience stores, dialysis centers and freestanding emergency rooms have had employees transmit pleas for special consideration that were worded identically.
But as an accounting of the requests obtained by
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Dallas County reports 1,699 new coronavirus cases, six deaths; Tarrant County fatalities surpass 1,000 As first vaccines are administered, Judge Jenkins urges county residents to continue taking precautions.
Dallas County reported 1,699 more coronavirus cases and six COVID-19 deaths Monday.
The latest victims include three Dallas residents two women in their 60s and a man in his 70s. The other victims were a Richardson woman in her 60s, a Cedar Hill man in his 80s and a Garland man in his 90s. All had underlying health problems.
Monday marked the first day vaccines against the coronavirus were administered in North Texas, but experts cautioned that it will be months before immunizations will be available to all.
The Pfizer vaccine arrived at Methodist Dallas Medical Center early Monday morning.
The first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine began arriving arriving throughout the U.S. on Monday including in Texas, with health care workers first in line to receive the shots.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said 19,500 doses of the vaccine were headed Monday to four sites in Texas: MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Wellness 360 at UT Health San Antonio and UT Health Austin s Dell Medical School.
Young s encouraging people to continue wearing masks and social distancing while herd immunity is built up so that hospitals are not overwhelmed.
First COVID-19 vaccines arrive at Methodist Dallas Medical Center
The first vaccine was administered shortly after 10 a.m. to 51-year-old Teresa Mata, an environmental services employee who cleans rooms in the emergency department at Methodist.
UPS driver Paul Pieroni, 55, delivers a shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrives to Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. The hospital is one of four sites across Texas receiving the shipment today. Pieroni, a UPS driver for 28 years, said it was humbling to bring the vaccines on their final leg of their trip to Methodist. He’d lost a relative to the disease weeks earlier.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)