More than two dozen hospitals in rural Texas, from the Panhandle to South Texas, are still waiting on doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to distribute to their front-line workers and community members, hospitals and health care advocates say.
āThereās no question there are massive inequities in this,ā said Don McBeath, director of government relations for the Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals.
Health care workers and residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities, a group labeled as 1A, were prioritized for the first round of vaccines.
Some 1,217 confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases have been reported in the county by state health officials.
"Rural hospitals serve an important role in providing care in their communities, and we will allocate vaccine to them as they enroll.