ABILENE, TX – Citing a decrease in demand, the Williamson County commissioners on Tuesday voted unanimously to close the county’s mass vaccination sites in May.
The sites operated by Curative at the Georgetown High School Stadium in Georgetown and the Dell Diamond in Round Rock will both close on May 21.
The Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex on Parmer Lane, operated by Family Hospital Systems, will close on May 12, a spokeswoman has said.
“We have far exceeded demand,” said County Judge Bill Gravell. “Last week we had 5,570 people sign up for their first vaccine and we had 30,000 doses.”
The judge said the mass vaccination site at the Georgetown stadium could have accommodated 187 more people on Monday and 322 more people on Tuesday. There is enough leftover vaccine doses for 861 people on Wednesday, he said.
The drive-thru site at the Dell Diamond had 1,561 unused appointments on Monday and 2,266 unused appointments on Tuesday, Gravell said. The site will have 3,081 vaccine appointments available on Wednesday, he said.
“Our goal is to take those doses allotted to Williamson County and push them to pharmacies and doctors’ offices,” Gravell said.
“The mass vaccination sites have served their purpose,” he said.
Commissioner Valerie Covey said the county’s mobile team, with the help of the National Guard, had also done its job of getting vaccinations to homebound seniors and to people who received food from Meals on Wheels.
Williamson County closed its coronavirus waitlist on Friday and referred anyone left on it to Curative, which is one of the vaccine hubs for the county. People who need vaccine appointments with Curative can make them at curative.com.
Family Hospital Systems is only giving second vaccine doses at its site at the Kelly Reeves Complex until it closes on May 12. The hospital system hopes to start giving coronavirus vaccines at its Family Emergency Room clinics in Round Rock and Cedar Park in the middle of May, depending on the doses it receives from the county, spokeswoman Jen Stratton said on Tuesday.
According to a Texas Department of Health Services website on Tuesday, 246,754 — or 54% — f the county’s population ages 16 and up had received their first dose of vaccine.
The website showed that 148,221 people, or 32.3%, of the county’s population ages 16 and up were fully vaccinated as of Tuesday.
