March 7, 2021 - The 13th week of vaccine distribution starts March 8, 2021 and Shelby County has two provider on the list. Brookshire Brother's Pharmacy is allocated to receive a total of 100 Moderna vaccine doses. Hope Community Medicine is allocated to receive a total of 100 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses which will be the first to arrive in the area and is a single dose vaccine.
Shelby County, a part of Public Health Region 4/5N, reports over the past week an additional 744 people have been vaccinated with at least one dose for a total of 2,095.
Also, over the past week an additional 97 people have been fully vaccinated for a total of 945 for the county.
The county has an estimated population of 19,449 of people 16 years of age and older. With the 13th week shipment of first doses vaccines, the county will have received a total of 2,770.
Past weekly vaccine allocations for Shelby County:
- Week 12, March 4 - "Save Our Seniors" Military Vaccine Clinic 200 vaccine doses (Pfizer)
- Week 12, March 1 - Aurora Concepts, PLLC 1,170 vaccine doses (Pfizer)
- Week 11, February 22 - Hope Community Medicine 200 vaccine doses (Moderna)
- Week 8, February 1 - Hope Community Medicine 300 vaccine doses (Moderna)
- Week 4, January 4 - Aurora Concepts, PLLC 100 vaccine doses (Moderna)
- Week 4, January 4 - Hope Community Medicine 100 vaccine doses (Moderna)
- Week 2, December 21 - Aurora Concepts, PLLC 100 vaccine doses (Moderna)
- Week 2, December 21 - Brookshires Pharmacy 300 vaccine doses (Moderna)
- Week 2, December 21 - Hope Community Medicine 100 vaccine doses (Moderna)
Vaccine coming through state, federal allocations
More than 1 million first doses of COVID-19 vaccine will be shipped to providers across Texas next week. The state is allocating 929,320 doses to 1,651 providers in 234 counties. More than 200,000 additional doses will be available to pharmacy locations and federally-qualified health centers directly from the federal government.
The significant increase is largely due to a supply of 245,200 doses of the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine coming to the state. The single-dose vaccine was authorized last weekend by the FDA and began shipping this week with 24,000 doses delivered to providers participating in the federally-supported vaccination sites in Arlington, Dallas and Houston.
Texas has now administered nearly 6.3 million doses. More than 4 million people have received at least one dose, and more than 2.2 million are fully vaccinated. Progress continues in vaccinating adults 65 years old and older with 48 percent having received at least one dose and more than 1 million seniors – more than one-quarter of the Texans in that age group – now fully vaccinated.
In addition to the first doses mentioned above, the state is ordering 457,000 doses intended as the second dose for people first vaccinated a few weeks ago. DSHS automatically orders second doses to arrive at providers in the week they can be begin to be administered, so they will be available when needed. People should be able to return to the same provider to receive their second dose within six weeks of getting the first.
Texas continues to vaccinate health care workers, residents of long-term care facilities, people 65 and older and those with medical conditions that put them at greater risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. This week, the state added school and child care workers to the list of people eligible to be vaccinated. According to a federal directive, the action means that “those who work in pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools…and those who work as or for licensed child care providers” may now be vaccinated by any vaccine provider in Texas.
People can find more information on COVID-19 vaccine at dshs.texas.gov/covidvaccine.
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