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Vaccine week 17: Dozens of Travis County pharmacies, private practices and medical clinics will receive doses

(Austin Public Health)
More than 100 providers in Travis County will receive more than 150,000 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for the week of April 5 as part of the 17th weekly allocation. This represents a more than 45% increase over last week's allocation.
Around two-thirds of those doses will go to the Texas Department of State Health Services, which is located in Travis County but not open to the public. Its doses will be used support efforts such as the statewide Save our Seniors initiative, according to a department spokesperson.
The bulk of the remaining doses will go to hub provider Austin Public Health, as well as to Seton Medical Center, which is providing doses to the Central Texas Vaccine Collaborative, host of a drive-thru vaccine clinic at the Circuit of the Americas. The University of Texas at Austin, the other hub provider in Travis County, will not receive any new doses for the second week in a row.
Dozens of local pharmacies—including multiple H-E-B, Randalls and Walgreens locations—as well as medical clinics and private practices will receive smaller allocations, of around 100 to 500 doses. A full list of providers can be found here.
Although these providers may have doses to administer next week, many are limiting their supply to existing patient waitlists or reaching out to eligible candidates directly. A list of providers with a waitlist can be found here.
With this latest allocation, Travis County will have received 684,195 initial or single doses. As of early Friday afternoon, nearly 35% of the county population 16 and older had received at least one dose and 17% was fully vaccinated.
On Monday, all Texas residents 16 and older became eligible for the vaccine. DSHS said that those 80 years old and older should be prioritized by vaccine providers, and APH has not yet opened up its appointments to the general public.
Texas will receive more than 2.5 million first and second doses of the COVID vaccine across the state next week. DSHS will allocate 1,094,920 first doses to 2,011 providers, the largest number of doses and providers to date. Additionally, the state health department will distribute 626,290 second doses for people vaccinated a few weeks ago.
The federal government will also provide an estimated 900,000 doses to pharmacy locations and federally-qualified health centers directly. Participating Texas pharmacies include CVS, H-E-B, Walgreens and Walmart. The CVS vaccine sign-up system can be found here, participating H-E-B locations can be found here and Walgreens status updates can be found here. Walmart does not currently list any Austin area stores with vaccine appointments.
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(Moriah Wilson/Instagram)
Austin police are investigating the killing of Moriah "Mo" Wilson after she was found with gunshot wounds inside an Austin home.
Wilson, a gravel and mountain bike racer, was visiting Austin from Colorado in preparation for the Gravel Locos race on Saturday taking place in Hico, a small town 2 hours from Austin.
On Wednesday, her roommate came home and found Wilson unresponsive with "a lot of blood near her,” police said. It is now being investigated as a suspicious death. No further information on the suspect or motive behind the killing are available at this time.
Wilson recently had become a full-time biker after winning a slew of races in the past year.
(Pexels)
Some of your favorite Instagram filters can’t be used in Texas anymore and Austinites are sounding off on social media.
Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, announced on Wednesday that certain filters would no longer be available in Texas.
The change is a result of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company uses facial recognition technology that violates laws in Texas. A release from Meta says it stopped using facial recognition tech in November 2021 and denies Paxton’s allegations.
Some Austinites bemoaned the shift, saying some of their favorite filters were now unavailable.
This was my FAVORITE filter on @instagram and they done removed it cause I’m in Texas ! Like wowwwwww pic.twitter.com/uX60hdIC0Q
— Pinkyy Montana (@inkstar_pinkyy) May 11, 2022
i heard that instagram filters got banned in texas? what the actual fuck y’all better give me my favorite filter back
— lia 🤍 (@liatootrill) May 11, 2022
loved this stupid filter sm i hate texas pic.twitter.com/DXr9mmUc64
— birthday boy jeno 🎂 (@beabtox) May 12, 2022
But more often than not, locals joked about the ban.
Texas women seeing the filter ban on IG pic.twitter.com/yDMcP3Qtsr
— Christian (Anabolic) Flores (@christian_flo24) May 11, 2022
So, the state of Texas has banned filter use on IG? THE END IS NEAR. 😂
— THE FRANCHISE! Франшиза (@NYCFranchise718) May 12, 2022
And some in-between chose to show off some natural beauty.
I live in Texas, but no filter needed. 😉 pic.twitter.com/A6teRgYMKn
— bad and bruja (@starseedmami) May 11, 2022
filter, no filter..texas women still reign supreme.
— 🎍 (@_sixile) May 11, 2022
Finally, some are trying to cash in on the opportunity.
Texas IG users- if you want to filter your picture cashapp me $1.50 $ErvnYng
— Gemini (@ervn_y) May 11, 2022
Meta said it plans to create an opt-in system for both Texas and Illinois residents, who are facing the same issues.