Updated at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 4 with details on the city receiving a second shipment of vaccine doses.
After administering the last of its initial 3,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine last week, the Arlington Fire Department today received a second shipment and will resume vaccinating frontline health care workers, first responders and residents who are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Vaccinations will continue Tuesday at the Esports Stadium and Convention Center at 1200 Ballpark Way, with the site operating from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to a news release from the fire department. The site will remain open daily until all of the doses have been given, according to the news release.
The second shipment of vaccines from the drugmaker Moderna contains 4,500 doses. The vaccination site has the capability to vaccinate up to 100 people an hour, according to the city.
To get vaccinated at the Arlington site, residents will need to register online with the Tarrant County Health Department. The county will assign a specific number of people to the Arlington site, where they will be validated at arrival. Anyone who is not registered with the county will be turned away, according to the fire department.
Frontline health care workers, first responders, people older than 65 and people with certain chronic health conditions are all eligible to be vaccinated in the early stages of the state’s vaccine rollout.
The fire department transformed an exhibit hall of the convention center into its vaccination site just before Christmas, with vaccinations beginning last Tuesday.
The vaccines from our first batch have all been distributed. Please monitor our facebook page. We will keep you aware as the following vaccine batches make their way here. We anticipate the next batch as early as next week. pic.twitter.com/NlfWeIdlcr
— Arlington Fire Dept. (@ArlingtonTxFire) December 31, 2020
