Fair Park vaccination center closed through the weekend, vaccinations to resume Monday - The Dallas Morning News

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Updated 12:34 p.m.: Revised with additional information.

Dallas County’s Fair Park vaccination center in South Dallas will be closed Friday and Saturday, a county spokesman said.

The center distributed 9,000 doses this week and ran out of vaccine appointments before the weekend, said Christian Grisales, a spokesman for the county health department.

He said vaccinations will resume Monday.

Grisales said he didn’t know how many people, if any, may have been due for a second dose at Fair Park over the next two days. If people were due for their second shots and are affected by the closure, they will be able to get their second dose when the center reopens, he said.

People vaccinated at the Fair Park center do not have to make an appointment for their second dose; instead, they are instructed to come back on a certain date around the same time as their second appointment.

Grisales said in the future, if vaccines run out before someone’s second dose date and the center closes, their second dose will be honored if they come back when the clinic is open.

At the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center, which was recently designated as a vaccination hub and began inoculations Thursday, has distributed nearly 1,200 of the 5,000 doses it was initially allocated and is continuing vaccinations by appointment only, said Catherine Cuellar, a spokeswoman for the city.

The Garland Health Department, which is also designated by the state as a vaccine hub, distributed the 1,000 doses it was allocated for the week at a drive-through event on Thursday.

Any leftovers from the drive-through clinic “are due to no shows,” said Dorothy White, director of public and media relations for the city of Garland. “We’re calling in additional people from our wait list to a clinical setting to use those additional doses.”

White said updates about future events will be posted when the city receives more doses of the vaccine.

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, a vaccine hub in Dallas County, and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Plano, a hub in Collin County, are continuing vaccine appointments today and tomorrow, said Julie Smith, a spokeswoman for Baylor Scott & White Health.

Both hubs will start appointments up again next week when additional shipments of the vaccine are confirmed.

UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Hospital did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

According to data from the Department of State Health Services, 124,256 people in Dallas County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 25,844 people are fully vaccinated.

The state estimates that there are just over 2.1 million people in Dallas County over age 16.

Denton County

Vaccinations continued in Denton County on Friday. The county has one vaccine hub in Denton and another center at the county’s health department in Lewisville.

The county did not have data on how many people had been vaccinated so far this week, but county spokeswoman Jennifer Rainey said the two sites had each scheduled 5,000 appointments per day this week.

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