When and where Texans can get the COVID-19 vaccine
Short supplies and erratic delivery are causing long waits for inoculations. We update this guide daily to give you what you need to know:
Who can get it now?
Group 1A: Includes health care workers in hospital settings working directly with COVID-19 or high-risk patients, long-term care staff and residents, EMS providers and home health care workers. Group 1B: A far larger group — anyone 65 or older, pregnant women and anyone 16 or older with a pre-existing condition. These include cancer, heart issues such as heart failure or coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, solid organ transplant, obesity or severe obesity, sickle cell disease or Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Group 1C: Texans 50 to 64 years old. School, child care staff:
Teachers, staff and bus drivers for pre-primary, primary and secondary schools, as well as Head Start and Early Head Start programs, and those who work for licensed child care providers, including center-based and family care providers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requiring retail pharmacies to “set aside all currently unbooked vaccination slots” through March 31 for those in this category.
President Joe Biden has directed all states to make every adult eligible for the vaccine by May 1.
If I qualify, where can I get it? You can make an appointment with a pharmacy, hospital, clinic or other provider but will face delays. The city offers text alerts about opportunities to get appointments with public providers — to sign up, text Vaccine or, for alerts in Spanish, Vacuna to 55000.
Providers also are listed on a map on the Texas Department of State Health Services vaccine information page at bit.ly/2jvpru3. Scroll down to “Where to Get Vaccinated” and click on “Large Vaccination Hubs” or “Vaccine Availability Map.” Call ahead to make sure a provider has doses of vaccine.
VIA Metropolitan Transit offers free rides to or from an appointment at a city- or county-sponsored COVID-19 vaccination site. Check Viainfo.net for the latest service updates.
Here’s where some major providers stand now:
City: All first-dose Pfizer vaccine appointments that Metropolitan Health District offered online have been taken. Check covid19.sanantonio.gov/serv ices/vaccination-for-covid-19
in case openings become available due to cancellations. Appointments are still available through 311, option 8, but those are only open to seniors or residents without internet access. Community health workers in the city’s most vulnerable neighborhoods also are signing up people. More information is at bit.ly/35e0u7y. University Health: Registration is ongoing, with notification weekly if enough doses are available to confirm appointments. Updates will be on the system’s
Go Mobile app, which sends notifications when new appointments open up, and its newsletter, available at Healthfocussa .net .Orgoto wecandoitsa.com or call 210-644-1960 for information.
Wellmed: The phone hotline, 833-968-1745, will remain open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily until appointments are filled. The shots are given at the Cisneros Senior Community Activity Center and the Treviño López Senior One-stop Center. Appointments required, no walk-ins. Visit wellmedhealthcare.com/vac cine or Wellmed’s Facebook page for updates.
Schertz: The city of Schertz is a registered COVID-19 vaccine provider. If the city’s waiting list for appointments is open, you can sign up at schertz.com/2027/vaccinewaitlist. You do not have to be a Schertz resident. Go to Schertz.com/alerts to get Civicready alerts — that tool will send notifications when the wait list reopens.
Centromed: Appointments are available every day through Thursday. Appointments for Saturday will become available on Wednesday. Register for an appointment at centromedsa.com/cv19vax/. Appointments are required; no walk-ins.
Christus Santa Rosa Health System: Has an appointment system; vaccines have been dispensed only at a couple of its New Braunfels locations. An online chat function at vaccinate.christushealth.org screens for eligibility — if it does not appear, no appointments are available.
Communicare Health Centers: Will contact current eligible patients to schedule appointments as supply allows.
Methodist Healthcare: Vaccinating its employees, providers and transplant patients, along with health care workers in the community. Call 210-575-0580 or visit exne.ws/sahealth.
San Antonio Military Health
System: Brooke Army Medical Center appointments are booked this week. BAMC will announce appointments for upcoming weeks every Tuesday evening on its Beneficiaries .com Facebook www.tricareonlinepage. may check anytime to look for open appointments due to cancellations or can call the Consult Appointment Management Office at or 210-916-9900 option 8, 800-443-2262, from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Military and civilian personnel in groups 1A or 1B should schedule vaccine appointments through their unit’s chain of command. BAMC’S vaccine site is on the main post of Fort Sam Houston in the Training Support Center, Building 4110 at 2536 Garden Ave. The Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center site is located in Building 4554, 1100 Wilford Hall Loop, on Joint Base San Antonio-lackland with check-in at the “C-wing” entrance. Updates at .milbamc.tricare and through social media.
Care South System: Texas The Veterans VA will Health call veterans to schedule vaccine appointments as supply allows. Updates www.southtexas.va.gov will be posted at or facebook.com/sanantonio VAMC.
UT Health San Antonio: Scheduling anyone who falls in groups 1A, 1B and 1C. Register and check availability of first-dose vaccine appointments at sched ule.utmedicinesa.com.
CVS: Vaccines offered at 180 locations around the state, including sites in San Antonio, Balcones Heights, Cibolo, Schertz, Selma, Universal City and New Braunfels. Check availability at Cvs.com or through the CVS Pharmacy mobile app; registration is required. Those without online access can call CVS customer service at 800-7467287. Appointments required; no walk-ins accepted.
H-E-B: Check availability at vaccine.heb.com. Customers due for second doses will be contacted directly.
Walgreens: No appointments available within 25 miles of San Antonio for the next five days. Check availability at Wal greens.com/schedulevaccine.
No walk-ins accepted. Check exne.ws/wal for updates. Walmart, Sam’s Club: Check for availability and schedule appointments online at wal mart.com/cp/1228302 and at samsclub.com/pharmacy.
These locations in San Antonio have received doses so far: 6703 W. Loop 1604 North, 8030 Bandera Road, 5555 De Zavala Road, 1603 Vance Jackson Road, 5626 Walzem Road, 2100 SE Loop 410, 8923 W. Military Drive and 3302 SE Military Drive. The Walmarts at 510 Kitty Hawk Road in Universal City and 602 Cibolo Valley Drive in Cibolo also have received vaccines.