Texas Jeff

Texas has a dashboard up with this information here, check out the "People Vaccinated" tab to see the distribution by age https://tabexternal.dshs.texas.gov/t/THD/views/COVID-19VaccineinTexasDashboard/Summary Texas has currently vaccinated about 720,000 folks with first shots and 83,000 with second shots. That's about three percent of the population over 16. About 1 in 33 people over the age of 16 have received their first shot. It is taking 5-7 days to advance the percentage by one percent. Right now, the biggest tool we have to cut the mortality rate is to wear a mask, wash your hands, stay distant, and just flat out reduce the number of contacts you have with other people. We all have masks, soap and space -- we can all help by just doing those things and simply deciding not to gather when possible. Right now, the impact of those things can be much higher than the impact of the vaccine.

you can read the resolution here online: https://degette.house.gov/sites/degette.house.gov/files/Impeachment Resolution.pdf the accusation is: "Donald John Trump engaged in high Crimes and Misdemeanors by willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States." The rest of the document mostly describes the lead up to the event and lays out the reasons behind the accusation.

I don't think so. Every dose shipped comes with a promise from Operation Warp Speed of a 2nd dose shipped to the same site either 3 (Pfizer) or 4 (Moderna) weeks later. Right now, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Texas has been allocated 1.8 million "first shot" doses through the end of this week. 1.5 million "first shots" were allocated through the week that just ended and should have arrived at their destinations by now. "Second shots" just started delivery last week, and only for Pfizer. Even if second shots are in the total and zero second shots were used, it does not make up for the balance. There are, of course, data delays between when shots are received and when they are reported as being used. Some of the diff is due to that, I suspect.

Right now I think it's a "last mile" issue. Today, Texas has been allocated 2.0 million doses and has had about 1.56 million doses shipped, but has only put 800,000 doses in arms. It does look like weekly allocations are now trailing injections, so eventually we will run out of doses. But right now the bottleneck is local distribution. That is something that Texas can work on and get right, so that when and if the supply ramps up we have the capability to push it out. If Texas does it right, then the bottleneck will be the manufacturing of the vaccine. If it is, then our local and state governments are set up to push out what they do receive.

Looks like it is in Rusk Co. DeWitt folks need to drive up there and get their vax!

OK vaccine hunters, you have a new tool to play with. Texas now has this map showing all vaccine providers with quantities in stock as of a few days ago: https://tdem.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=3700a84845c5470cb0dc3ddace5c376b You may have to play with the controls on the upper right side to get the data to show up, particularly Facility Type. You should see a bunch of red and blue dots. The red dots are out of vax and the blue dots might have some in stock. Clicking on a dot gives you a website link and a phone number. You can also see when that site was last updated. I'll warn you that it's still really hard to find vax. Most of the links were to places that did not have any kind of sign up sheet. But it's a start. It does tell you who does NOT have the vax so you can stop looking there. Kudos to Texas DSHS for getting this online.

Contact phone numbers and websites for the hubs: https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/coronavirus/immunize/vaccine-hubs.aspx Not all of them are ready to roll, but if you are looking for more info that is where to go...

The idea behind the hubs is that they are supposed to set up public vaccination centers in exchange for receiving large quantities. We will see how that goes. I am willing to give them a chance to attempt that. It seems like Austin Public Health could find city or school sites to set up 2-4 vaccination centers and some central way of registering for an appointment. Even two centers, working 7 days a week, would only be giving 900 shots a day. I saw a site in Hildalgo Co that was in a really bad looking facility that was handling that kind of volume. If they get good at that, they have a pathway to open up more centers as more vax is available. If they can't do that or if it gets too political, well that sucks for Austin's leadership. It is a chance for our local government to shine or fail, for sure.

Texas week 5 is out: https://www.dshs.state.tx.us/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week5.pdf First page shows the "large vaccination hubs" across the state. Austin Public Heath, which had previously received a total of 1000 doses, gets 12,000 this week. Hopefully they are ready...

Also, the National Archives publishes digital scans of what they received here: https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/2020 Check 'em out ... same stuff the House and Senate tellers were looking at when they announced the vote.

I looked it up. Each state electoral college assembly makes six copies: One to be sent to the President of the Senate Two to be held by that state's Secretary of State. One of those is held for a year and the other is subject to the order of the President of the Senate. Two to be sent to the Archivist of the United States. Same deal as the states, one copy for the records and one copy to be sent to the Senate if needed. The last copy goes to the district judge where the electors assembled, so I assume the Travis Co judge for Texas. The two copies held for the records for a year are subject to public inspection, so in theory you could demand to see it and they might say come on down.

I took a look at vaccination percentage by Texas county today. What the heck is going on in Cottle County (mostly Paducah, south of Childress)? Cottle Co leads the state with an 81% first-shot immunization rate! Hemphill Co is in second place around 12%. Oddly, no vaccine has been allocated to Cottle Co. Cottle Co is hard hit by COVID, currently 19th in the state according to COVID Act Now. It will be interesting to watch the stats over the next few weeks to see if the vaccine does its job in this county. Travis Co, BTW, is currently in 86th place among Texas counties for first-shot percentage. Behind San Antonio and at half the rate of Lubbock.

Trump also tried this method late in the vote, but by then the play clock had expired:

Congress started on January 3rd. New members are already seated. Right now the senate has 99 members because of the two Georgia runoff elections. Loeffler (GA) lost, but she's still in office, probably until they certify the runoff election in GA. Georgia will then switch from one R senator to two D senators, creating a 50/50 split. Pence still breaks the tie until Harris is sworn in. R's still have the majority until Harris is VP and the two GA senators are sworn in.

Next week, Texas DSHS will focus on getting vaccine to large distribution hubs instead of smaller sites. The idea is to make it simpler to find the vax and sign up for an appointment. Next week is also the last week that reservations are required for long term care facilities, so more vax should go to either these hubs or other locations starting in a few weeks. Happy to see them trying to adjust in real time to what is and isn't working...

yeah, I get that. But right now we are on a pace to finish in 2.5 years, which is not great. Hopefully we can pick up the pace.

So I took a look at weeks 1-4 of vaccine allocation in Travis County, to see where it was going. So far, 94 sites have been allocated vaccine. The top five have 40% of the vaccine and the next five have 20%. Only 12 of the sites have only received more than one allocation. About half of the sites have received only one 100 dose allocation. So there are a lot of sites, but they're not ready for mass distribution. The top sites are all hospitals and I am sure they are mostly vaccinating their staff. The small sites may have enough to cover their employees and maybe a few extra folks, but they are not getting regular weekly deliveries. They do not know when or if they will get more. There is a regular cadence of deliveries to the states, but not a regular flow of vaccine to the sites. The top five sites are Seton Medical Center, UT Health Austin (Dell Med), St. Davids Medical Center, North Austin Medical Center, and Dell Children's. The next five are Dell Seton at UT, South Austin Medical Center, Communitycare North Central, and the DSHS Central Pharmacy Warehouse. They've got 60% of the vaccine and are some of the only places in Travis Co that have received more than one delivery. I don't think any of those top ten places have phase 1B clinics or online appointments set up for the public, but I could be wrong. Right now you have to have some relationship with one of those places or get lucky and find a few doses at a pharmacy. For most of us, we are going to have to wait for these big locations to get through whatever internal vaccinations they wish to do and then hope that they set up a public-facing vaccination effort. Travis Co is only giving 2000 shots per day. This is going to have to scale by about 5x if we want to get everyone over 16 vaccinated in six months.

Boring boring C-SPAN showing protesters freely roaming around statutory hall...

Well, 1 out of the 83 people in Loving Co, Texas now has a shot, and with that the vaccine has reached all 254 Texas counties. Texas has made an effort to get it to both rural and urban areas.

Adler on KXAN, prior to New Year's: "We're asking people not to engage in social gatherings with people that are not in your household. I know it's hard, but for this New Year's Eve holiday, it is best to celebrate it with the people that are in your household"

Only Pfizer pfolks should be getting second shots this week. The Moderna vax has not been out long enough. You can tell who has received Pfizer vs Moderna because the Moderna folks have all received quantities that are multiples of 100. The Pfizer pfolks have all received quantities that are NOT multiples of 100. Most of the smaller clinics have received Moderna because of the cold storage requirements for Pfizer.

I am not sure about that... You would have to total up all of the amounts in the PDF to figure that out. You also have to know if they are taking the Pfizer vaccine quantities diverted to nursing homes out of the state total, or if that is included. The federal HHS has data showing allocations per state by first and second shot. That's probably your best resource to know how many "new people" are getting allocations each week. Texas is getting allocated about 160k-200k "first shot" Pfizer and about 160k "first shot" Moderna doses per week.

I think "Week 4" is Mon Jan 4th -> Sun Jan 10th. I think here is how "weeks" work: Tuesday before the week, the feds issue an allocation for the states Friday or so before the week, the states tell the feds where to send the stuff Either on that day or on the following Monday, the state publishes the "Week X" PDF Monday of the week, stuff starts to arrive. Deliveries continue throughout the week. Either three weeks (Pfizer) or four weeks (Moderna) later, the feds ship the same quantities to the same location for second shots I could be off by a week, but I think we are now in week 4.

It's like a statewide Easter egg hunt where the prize is you live...

Texas week 4 sites are out: https://dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week4.pdf