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Leading Off (1/20/21)
County changes course on vaccine distribution plan, school districts don t want students to see inauguration, and a son sheltered his father after sisters murder.
By Peter Simek
Published in
FrontBurner
January 20, 2021
7:44 am
Dallas County Changes Course on Vaccine Distribution. County commissioners approved a new plan yesterday that will prioritize vaccine distribution for residents of the 11 county ZIP codes that health officials have identified as the most affected by COVID-19. Commissioners were concerned that early vaccine distribution had disproportionately gone to residents of wealthy White ZIPs with fewer documented cases of the virus. County Judge Clay Jenkins abstained from the vote and later expressed his fears that the new order largely prohibits vaccines to be distributed to residents outside those ZIPs, regardless of age or health condition, and questioned its legality. The county reported 1,589 new cases and 16 new deaths.