University Health appeals for patience as it awaits more doses of COVID vaccine
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CVS Pharmacist Gilbert Barraza fills injection needles with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to residents and staff at Morningside Ministries on Tuesday, December 29, 2020. While residents in long-term care facilities are at the top priority for vaccinations, University Health opened up the Moderna vaccine for the second tier for inoculations people 65 or older and those with critical medical conditions.Matthew Busch /For The San Antonio Express-News
About 5:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, University Health made an announcement people across the region had been waiting for:
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Currently Reading More bodies in blue or fewer bodies in orange, says Bexar County Sheriff as he works to reduce jail staffing woes
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Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar talks with the media in November 2019. Salazar is taking a multi-pronged approach to improving operations at the jail as he starts his second term by continuing to hire quality recruits, converting unused space to a separate but adjacent mental health facility for inmates with mental health issues and providing better pay and working conditions to keep detention officers from leaving.Marvin Pfeiffer /San Antonio Express-News
A section of Bexar County Jail’s South Tower could become a mental health facility with room to house and treat several hundred people who Sheriff Javier Salazar says should be patients, not inmates.
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Currently Reading We ve had enough - Moderate Republicans ditched Donald Trump for Joe Biden in the party s key Bexar County strongholds. But the defections didn t help down-ballot Democrats
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President-elect Joe Biden flipped territory held by downballot Republicans in Bexar County where voters in 2016 embraced Trump and rejected Clinton in 2016 albeit by single-digit margins.Joshua Roberts /Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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Republican state Rep. Steve Allison garnered roughly 4,000 more votes in his district, long a conservative stronghold, than President Donald Trump. Allison fended off a challenge from Democrat Celina Montoya and provided an upset for Democrats who had targeted the seat. President-elect Biden bested Trump in the district by about 1,500 votes.William Luther /StaffShow MoreShow Less
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Bexar County Jail s high staffing turnover, excessive overtime sure to be major focus for county in 2021
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A detention officer with the Special Emergency Response Team at the Bexar County Jail frisks an inmate in 2017. The SERT Team of the Sheriff’s Office uses specially trained deputies to handle high risk situations that are outside of the scope of regular detention officers duties.John Davenport /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Bexar County Sheriff s Office (BCSO) deputy Daniel Pollard (left) holds a mask and air tank used in emergency situations in the Bexar County Jail in 2017. County officials are worried about overtime and staff turnover that has plagued the facility for more than a decade.John Davenport /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less