List of coronavirus vaccine hubs in Houston-area
A droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)The Texas Department of State Health Services has designated dozens of coronavirus vaccine hubs across the state. Hereโs a list of the designated vaccine hubs in the Greater Houston area. Please note that just because a location has been designated a hub does not mean that the vaccine is being administered at that location. Officials in each county are responsible for developing plans to administer the vaccine.
Federal officials discuss Operation Warp Speed and COVID-19 vaccine distribution
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense gave a briefing with on Operation Warp Speed and COVID-19 vaccine distribution. You can watch the briefing in the video attached to this story.
400 years on, Mayflower's legacy includes pride, prejudice
Annawon Weeden, 46, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, sits for a portrait outside his home in Oakdale, Conn., Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The soul-searching extends across the Atlantic to England, where Mayflower descendants say they, too, are trying to reconcile pride and prejudice. When the Pilgrims arrived at what we now know as Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Wampanoag tribe helped the exhausted settlers survive their first winter. But Native Americans also endured racism, oppression and new diseases brought by the European settlers. โItโs opening up everyone elseโs eyes to how unbalanced the world is and unequal,โ said Troy Currence, Hazel Harding Currence's son and a medicine man from the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe.