ABILENE, TX – The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced the state will receive 333,650 first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, as part of their Week 6 rollout beginning Jan. 18.
DSHS has instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ship those doses to 260 providers across Texas.
79 of those providers will include hub providers that will focus on large community vaccination efforts. Find out more on COVID-19 vaccination hubs and how to sign up here.
Hub providers in the Big Country and Concho Valley include:
- Abilene-Taylor County Health Department – 850 N 6th Street – Abilene
- Shannon Pharmacy – 119 E. Beauregard Ave. – San Angelo
1,200 doses of the Moderna vaccine are scheduled to be shipped to the Abilene-Taylor County Health Department, while Shannon Pharmacy will receive 1,950 doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
The remaining 181 providers will continue to vaccinate Texas health care workers, residents of long-term care facilities, people 65 and older, and those with medical conditions that put them at high risk of hospitalization and death from the virus.
- United Pharmacy – 300 E Commerce St – Brownwood
- United Pharmacy – 505 S Access Rd W – Clyde
- ResourceCare Cross Plains – 301 S Main St – Cross Plains
- Comanche County Medical Center – 10201 Highway 16 – Comanche
- DSHS Anson – 2062 Us Hwy 277 North – Anson
- DSHS Pharmacy Brady – 1004 S Bridge St – Brady
- Sweetwater-Nolan Co Health Department – 301 E 12th St – Sweetwater
- DSHS Ballinger – 2017 Hutchins Avenue – Ballinger
- Cogdell Family Clinic – 1700 Cogdell Blvd – Snyder
- TTUHSC – 749 Pine St – Abilene
- ResourceCare Merkel – 217 Edwards – Merkel
- Throckmorton Rural Health Clinic – 802 N Minter Ave Ste B – Throckmorton
- La Esperanza Clinic, Inc. – 35 E 31st St – San Angelo
DSHS said Texas is also ordering about 500,000 second doses for people who were first vaccinated a few weeks ago.
In the past week, Texas became the first state to administer 1 million doses of vaccine, which has now been administered to residents of all 254 Texas counties.
DSHS reminds the public that vaccines remain limited based on the capacity of the manufacturers to produce it, so distributing it to all those in the 1A and 1B populations who wish to be vaccinated will take time.
However, officials say the supply is expected to increase in the coming months, and additional vaccines are in clinical trials that could be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration in the future.
