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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 56 • Number 4 830 • 379 • 2234
Local officials say no vacccines for the public yet But they are working together to try to have a plan to distribute them once they arrive By Darren Dunn
(Seguin) -- There are no vaccinations now available for the general public, but at some point -- later this year -that will change. Local officials all week have been stressing that the public needs to remain patient and that the only COVID-19 vaccine doses availabe locally have been going to medical workers and first responders, who the state identifies at Tier 1A recipients. There’s been a limited supply and there’s just not enough to begin to provide vaccinations for those in Tier 1B, which includes those over the age of 65 or those over the age of 16 who have a underlying medical condition. Seguin City Manager Steve Parker again drove this fact home during a COVID-19 pandemic update that he gave Tuesday night to the Seguin City Council. Parker says even though there aren’t doses now avaible for the general public, he says local officials are working together to start trying to come up with a distribution strategy that will work whenever those
doses finally arrived. It could be weeks or months before that happens, but he says they want to be ready to respond. “Over the next couple of weeks, we are working on a plan with the hospital. As
we get in future doses of the COVID vaccine -- we want to come up with a plan of how we administer that with all the other agencies. The main focus at that point will be the 1B type people who are over 65, or who have medical conditions
that we really need to be concerned with. At this point, all vaccines are either being administered to either public safety professionals or they are being administered to medical professionals,” said Parker. See VACCINES, Page 3