Can I go to a vaccine center in another province to get the coronavirus shot?

HOUSTON – KPRC 2 has received a large amount of email, social media comments and phone calls about confusion about the state’s recently unveiled hub system for vaccine distribution, and a question keeps popping up: Can I make an appointment to have a Hub that is not located in the same province where I live?

The short answer is yes.

Texas government Greg Abbott said Monday there are no geographic restrictions on the hubs that Texas residents can visit. So residents of Galveston County, Montgomery, County, Fort Bend County, etc., can book appointments at any of the three hubs operating in Harris County.

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The most likely problem people will run into is actually scheduling an appointment.

“It took 3 hours,” Mac McClendon, director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness at Harris County Public Health, said Tuesday. “We opened it up and the 8,000 vaccines were gone so quickly.”

McClendon said he isn’t sure, but he hopes Harris County Public Health will be able to administer an additional 8,000 doses next week. He said he has been forced to wait for Austin’s word as the state controls distribution of the vaccine.