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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 56 • Number 24 830 • 379 • 2234
City of Seguin provides projection for rolling out vaccines to all those who want one By Darren Dunn
(Seguin) -- If you’re eager to get your COVID-19 vaccination, here’s something to help put the challenge into perspective for you. You could conceive a child today, deliver it, and actually have it be several weeks old before everyone in this community is actually vaccinated.
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the Seguin Coliseum. Parker says the clinic is being jointly hosted by GRMC and Guadalupe County. On Tuesday night, he stated that they expected to administer 5,000 shots by the time the week is over.
Health officials have been preaching patience for months, and Tuesday night Seguin Mayor Donna Dodgen says she believes it could take up to 45 weeks before the completion of this vaccination process.
“We are going to do a 1,000 doses the first day (Wednesday) and then we are going to ramp that up to 2,000 doses on Thursday and Friday. For your education, that’s about 30 doses every 15 minutes to do 1,000 doses in a day. The next day, we are going to have to double that and go to 60 doses just to be able to do that,” said Parker.
Dodgen made her comments during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Seguin City Council. It was part of a COVID-19 update given by Seguin City Manager Steve Parker. Parker focused much of his attention on the city’s first mass vaccination clinic that continues this week at
Parker says they have been preparing for this drive for weeks, so he thinks they are ready to handle this initial offering. He says this mass vaccination works in just getting started, and he knows they’ve got a long road ahead of them. See VACCINE, Page 2