On late Friday afternoon in Crosbyton the parking lot at the Pioneer Memorial Museum was jam-packed, but no one was there to see an exhibit. The Crosbyton Covenant Clinic was utilizing the largest and most accessible room in the county to inoculate area residents with the Covid-19 vaccine.
For two weeks Covenant had gathered names for a sign-up list, and an anecdotal survey of masked attendees rolling up their sleeves showed residents from a six-county area convened in Crosbyton for the vaccination clinic.
The event in Crosbyton was just one patch of the Covid-19 vaccination quilt that is coming together in Texas Spur Country.
According to the Snyder News newspaper, Cogdell Hospital in Snyder expects to be able to vaccinate up 500 people in the month of February. Those interested in getting vaccinated can sign up on the Cogdell Hospital Facebook page, and someone should get with you in three to five days.
State regulations mandate that only 65-plus and 55-plus with pre-existing medical conditions are eligible to receive the vaccines, and all signup lists are only for those two groups.
In Dickens County the Spur Clinic has filed its paperwork with the State of Texas Health Department to be an authorized vaccine location.
Dana’s Pharmacy and the Spur clinic have signup sheets.
In Jayton and Aspermont, health providers and nursing home residents were among the first to be vaccinated, and they will soon be ready for Vaccine 2, as soon as they can get them.
In Floyd County, just north of Crosbyton, Payne Pharmacy is an authorized vaccine site, and earlier in January, they received 100 doses of vaccine and quickly dispersed those in two days, and they immediately requested more. On Monday, pharmacist Justin Payne announced that the pharmacy had just been approved to receive an additionl federal allotment of vaccine, and was immediately administering shots that afternoon to those on its signup list.
Mangold Clinic in Lockney has signup sheets that number 476 people, according to Elvia Holguin, clinic manager. On Tuesday, they received 200 vaccines.
The first 100 will go to people who have gotten their first shot 28 days ago and can now get their second shot, and the second 100 will go to those on the waiting list.
In nearby Childress, on Friday, 264 people received their second dose, and on Thursday, Feb. 4 the Childress Regional Medical Center is holding a community-wide second dose clinic at the Mashburn Event Center. CRMC has ordered 1,900 first dose vaccines, but currently has no first dose vaccines.
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