BEAUMONT, Texas — The Texas Department of State and Health Services confirmed to 12News the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines should be arriving in Southeast Texas on Thursday.
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas received its first batch of Pfizer vaccines Thursday morning, according to health official Mary Poole.
Health officials at the Medical Center of Southeast Texas and CHRISTUS St. Elizabeth confirmed with 12News that the COVID-19 vaccines have also arrived to their hospitals.
The three hospital systems in the area will each get 975 doses of the vaccine. The state scheduled the shipments to be delivered on Thursday. Those first shots will be given to frontline healthcare workers.
Angie Hebert with the Medical Center of Southeast Texas said their frontline workers will receive the vaccines at the earliest possible moment after the shipment arrives.
"So we've been preparing for months," Hebert told 12News earlier in the week.
A process for administering the shots once they are here has already been ironed out according to Hebert.
"Every way that we have approached this vaccine process has been detailed and guided by the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]," Hebert said.
