The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has announced it will administer nearly 1,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday and Thursday, January 20-21. UTEP said it applied to become a vaccination site through the state program in December and was approved in early January. These will be the first COVID-19 vaccines administered by UTEP.
The vaccines will be used for faculty, staff, and current students who are healthcare workers in clinical settings who work directly with COVID-19 positive patients or infectious materials, those who work in long-term care facilities, emergency medical teams, home health care providers, hospice workers, outpatient staff who work with symptomatic patients, community pharmacy staff, public health workers, people involved in COVID-19 testing and vaccination programs, school nurses and those who work in mortuaries.
“We are grateful to be able to take care of our faculty, staff, and students in this way,” said UTEP President Heather Wilson in a statement. “As the supply of vaccine increases over the coming weeks and months, we hope to expand our program to include families, alumni, and others to be part of an effort that vaccinates a lot of people in a short period of time. We will try to help the community.”
UTEP has research facilities that can handle ultra-cold vaccines and the School of Pharmacy students and faculty that can immunize people.
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