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4 Texas MedClinic locations in San Antonio to offer limited supply of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Read full article: 4 Texas MedClinic locations in San Antonio to offer limited supply of Moderna COVID-19 vaccineSAN ANTONIO – Texas MedClinic will be offering a limited supply of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at four of its locations beginning Thursday, March 25 through Wednesday, March 31. Texas MedClinic acquired the vaccines through the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. “Supporting Metro Health and our community has been a top priority, especially throughout the pandemic,” said Texas MedClinic Chief Medical Officer and practicing physician Dr. David Gude. According to the news release, Texas MedClinic was the first in the region to offer a COVID-19 rapid antigen test that provided results in 15 minutes. Since the onset of the pandemic, close to 300,000 rapid antigen tests have been administered across 19 clinic locations.
Texas MedClinic will not offer COVID-19 vaccine; company says it will focus on testing
Read full article: Texas MedClinic will not offer COVID-19 vaccine; company says it will focus on testingTexas MedClinic established a new COVID-19 testing location on the city's South Side intended to care for underserved communities. SAN ANTONIO – Texas MedClinic, an area urgent care clinic system, will not be offering the COVID-19 vaccine to patients and instead will focus on testing for the virus, the company confirmed on Tuesday. Texas MedClinic says it has been performing more than 1,200 COVID-19 tests per day across 19 clinics. The high demand for testing will limit the clinic system’s ability to offer the vaccine as soon as available, the company said in a statement. Dr. David Gude, chief operating officer of Texas MedClinic, said the group had become among the first private providers to offer the COVID-19 test in March.
Asymptomatic patients with positive rapid COVID-19 tests to be counted in case tally
Read full article: Asymptomatic patients with positive rapid COVID-19 tests to be counted in case tallySpeaking at the Thursday nightly briefing, Metro Health Chief of Epidemiology Rita Espinoza said the asymptomatic cases will now also be listed as “probable” cases in the city’s COVID-19 statistics. Without one, though, they weren’t recorded as a case, and no contact tracing efforts were conducted. The group recommended all antigen positive lab reports be counted as “probable” cases and investigated the same. A positive result from one of these tests is enough to consider a case “confirmed,” under state definitions, compared to the “probable” label that positive antigen test results get. “That means that you can count on a positive test being positive,” Gude said.