Texas is expected to receive 800,000 to 850,000 doses of vaccine for Covid-19 for the week of March 15th.
Last week the state got more than a million doses. Chris Van Deusen with the Texas Department of State Health Services says it's due to fewer shipments of the one-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine. "The federal government kind of pushed out everything that had been manufactured to that point. so we're getting less than that. It will be about 30,000 doses of the J&J. It will probably be that way for the next couple of weeks until that really starts to ramp up again."
The allocation is the third largest Texas has received since vaccination began in December.
The Texas Department of State Health Services is allocating 656,810 doses to at least 445 providers in 178 counties. Approximately 200,000 additional first doses will be available to pharmacy locations and federally-qualified health centers directly from the federal government. "We will be kicking in to a lot of people getting their second doses. This is three to four weeks after we really started getting the big number of first doses. We're getting big numbers of second doses now, over 600,000."
That includes the federally-supported sites in Arlington, Dallas and Houston that have finished their three-week cycle of first doses and will be administering second doses for the next three weeks.
