Texas announces Phase 1B of Covid-19 Vaccination

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Texas continues to receive doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, and is distributing statewide to hospitals, pharmacies, local health departments, freestanding ERs and other clinics.

Who’s getting the vaccine now?
If you are a front-line healthcare worker or resident of a long-term care facility, you are eligible now to receive the vaccine, since December 14. This group is considered Phase 1A.

If you are in Phase 1B, you are also eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine, depending on availability and the vaccine provider. Vaccine supply remains limited, but more vaccine will be delivered to providers each week. Phase 1B recipients include:

People 65 years of age and older
People 16 years of age and older with at least one chronic medical condition that puts them at increased risk for severe illness from the virus that causes COVID-19, such as but not limited to:
Cancer
Chronic kidney disease
COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Heart conditions, such as heart failure, coronary artery disease or cardiomyopathies
Solid organ transplantation
Obesity and severe obesity (body mass index of 30 kg/m2 or higher)
Pregnancy
Sickle cell disease
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
If you are in Phase 1A or 1B, please visit the Texas COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Locations map to see if and where you might be able to get a vaccine today. Remember, your ability to get a vaccine today or this week will depend on vaccine availability at your provider’s office, clinic, or facility. Please call ahead to your provider.






https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/coronavirus/immunize/vaccine.aspx

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4. Well I was in the Pfizer trial..

But of course I don’t know if I got the vaccine or the placebo so I called them today and they said that as soon as tomorrow they would be calling people to unblind them and give them the vaccine if they are in the placebo group.

As for my husband who is diabetic, I called HEB pharmacy and they said they would start doing 1B as soon as they had finished giving appointments to 1A and had a supply of vaccines to give to 1B patients. So he’s going to have to wait a bit.

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6. Did you have any reaction when "vaccine" was administered?

Another way to find out is to do an antibody test.

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7. Not that I remember.....

But then again I’m tired and achy most of the time anyway. And I don’t think everyone has a reaction although it is common to have a reaction. It’s also possible I had Covid-19 in March but had symptoms that were very mild, headache, dry cough, sore throat, aches and fatigue that lasted over a month. So maybe I didn’t have a reaction because I’d already been exposed. Wasn’t able to get tested at the time because they were only testing people with fever or severe symptoms. By the time anyone could get tested I wasn’t sick.