Young County set to receive Moderna vaccine doses

The Texas Department of State Health Services tasked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ship COVID-19 vaccines to more than 1,100 providers in 185 Texas counties this week, with 700 Moderna vaccines being scheduled for Young County clinics.

According to the vaccine allocation list for week two of the allocation process for the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Jared Mataska at Graham Medical Associates and the Lovett-Meredith Rural Health Clinic/Olney Family Clinic were scheduled to receive vaccines.

GMA was scheduled to receive 200 of the Moderna vaccine while the Lovett-Meredith Rural Health Clinic/Olney Family Clinic together will be receiving 500 of the Moderna vaccine. The CDC will deliver 460,500 doses of the Moderna vaccine and 159,900 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to continue to vaccine front-line care workers and resident of long-term care facilities.

For the rest of the story, see the Dec. 26 edition of The Graham Leader.