TX Fire Department Expecting Batch of Vaccinations

The city of El Paso announced Monday it will receive 3,000 vaccinations this week as part of the first stage of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rollout for first responders and medical personnel.

“The El Paso Fire Department and Department of Public Health is expecting a shipment of vaccinations to arrive this week. This first shipment from Moderna contains 900 doses for firefighters and 2,100 for health care workers,” El Paso Fire Chief Mario D'Agostino said in a news release. “These doses will be distributed among our members, prioritizing those in the frontlines in constant contact with our community. This includes personnel at the fire stations and testing sites.”

Also, the city of El Paso’s Department of Public Health is encouraging health care providers to join the fight against the pandemic by becoming COVID-19 vaccine providers.

The department is asking local health care providers, including pharmacies, to become COVID-19 vaccine dispensing sites by enrolling with the Texas Department of State Health Services to receive vaccine allocations on a regular basis.

“It is only through communitywide participation by our fellow health care providers that we will successfully make vaccine widely available and easily accessible to all El Paso City-County residents within our own neighborhoods,” Public Health Director Angela Mora said in a news release.

Mora said the simple enrollment process requires providers to have an active National Provider Identifier/Texas Provider Identifier number. Providers will be asked to follow all recommendations by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and report vaccine usage.

To enroll or to learn, more visit www.dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/immunize/provider-enrollment.aspx or visit EPStrong.org and click on the Vaccination tab.

Interested providers will be able to join the Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 Vaccine Dispensing weekly planning meetings to learn about the latest news on the Department of State Health Services’ distribution plan and how to prepare to administer the COVID-19 vaccines.

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