Some vaccination "hubs" in North Texas have run out of supply and will be closed Friday morning. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins says the center at Fair Park had used its entire supply and would be closed all day Friday and Saturday, reopening Monday morning.
Jenkins says 18,500 had been vaccinated at Fair Park over the past two weeks.
"It’s also important in these darkest months when our hospitals are full, when our ICU beds are scarce, and when spread is rampant, to wear your mask, wash your hands, avoid crowds and forgo get-togethers," he wrote on Twitter.
Jenkins says more than 300,000 people have registered for the vaccine in Dallas County, but sites at Dallas County Health and Human Services, Baylor Scott & White, Fair Park, Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern receive a total of just 30,000 shots a week. He says Fair Park would receive an additional 9,000 shots next week.
Jenkins says President Joe Biden has promised "100 million shots in 100 days," and Johnson & Johnson is seeking emergency use authorization for a vaccine that would require just one dose, saying those would "dramatically increase" vaccine allotments over time.
"If we all work together, we’ll begin to see an improvement in March & it'll keep getting better as more & more people are vaccinated. But for now, we must all do our part to make good decisions to keep our community & country strong until the vaccine can get us to herd immunity," he says.
Tarrant County Public Health said the vaccination hub at the Hurst Conference Center had used its entire supply Thursday as well. Thursday night, the department said another shipment of the vaccine would arrive Friday morning; appointments there would resume at 2 p.m.
Other locations in Tarrant County, including Resource Center in Southeast Fort Worth and ESports Stadium in Arlington, were still open.