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Seventy Texas CVS pharmacies will roll out COVID-19 vaccinations starting Feb. 11, including locations in Amarillo and Lubbock. Other participating communities include Abilene, Beaumont, Brownsville, El Paso, Houston, Laredo, Midland, Plano, San Antonio, and Waco according to a news release from CVS Health, Tuesday.

AUSTIN—The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) last month approved the 2021 Regional Water Plans, which will form the basis of the 2022 State Water Plan. The regional water plans were developed by the state’s 16 regional water-planning groups to identify strategies and projects to meet the state’s future water needs during a repeat of drought of record conditions in the next 50 years.

The rate of COVID-19 vaccine administration is slowly increasing in Texas as we enter the second full month of shots going into arms. The Texas Department of State Health Services last weekend reported that about 1.6 million Texans—overwhelmingly frontline health workers, people over 65, or those with chronic health conditions—have received the first dose. Just over 400,000 are fully-vaccinated. The state has received 3.16 million doses so far; nearly half remain to be administered. Texas ranks near the bottom in percapita doses administered when compared to other states, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (TX-13) has been appointed to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC). HASC is charged with authorizing national defense budgets and enacting policies that structure the U.S. military.

In public comment during the Jan. 19 Hemphill County Hospital Board meeting, Jocelyn Timmons offered her congratulations for the move-in of residents to the new nursing home, Mesa View Senior Living.

The Hemphill County Hospital District lab has reported 21 new positive tests for COVID-19 in local residents over the last seven days, from Jan. 21-27, and 13 new cases in non-county residents. There have been no new virus-related hospital admissions during that time either, and no inpatient or ER transfers to a facility with higher level of care have been necessary.