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Curative, which has partnered with Bell County to give COVID-19 vaccinations, is opening a clinic in Temple starting Tuesday.
The new clinic is set to be located in Temple at Vista Community Church, 7051 Stonehollow Drive, and will be open from Tuesday through Thursday. Similar to the Curative clinic in Killeen opened last week, at Leo Buckley Stadium 500 N. 38th St., the Temple location will offer 1,500 vaccination appointments each week.
The clinicâs operating hours are from 8 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Wednesday appointments ranging from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
County Judge David Blackburn said the county is currently seeing many appointments open up and the county and Curative are working together to make sure whoever wants the vaccine can get it.
Four new COVID-19 related deaths were announced in Bell County on Thursday, as active cases budged to 398 â one fewer than Wednesday.
âWe have a new total of 360 deaths,â Amanda Robison-Chadwell, the Bell County Public Health Districtâs director, said. âThose new death certificates are for a man in his 50s from Bell County, a woman in her 90s from Belton, a man in his 40s from Killeen (and) a man in his 70s from Temple.â
Although the health district has identified 132 such deaths since Feb. 1, Robison-Chadwell, has previously emphasized how death records are not reported to the county on the same day as the fatalities.