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Dallas County will be among the first locations in the country to get the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use on Friday.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins tweeted the county will receive 6,000 Johnson and Johnson vaccines next week. The announcement comes as the county’s Fair Park vaccination hub becomes one of three FEMA mega sites across the state.

FEMA will open a COVID-19 Community Vaccination Center Friday at Globe Life Field in Arlington and will eventually transition to AT&T Stadium.

The University of North Texas is rolling out a new layer of protection against COVID-19 starting next month. It’s an effort to protect students and bring back some sense of college normalcy.

The FDA advisory committee voted to recommend emergency use authorization for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.

The FEMA COVID-19 vaccination site in Arlington is now open at Glove Life Field where members of the military are helping run a federal vaccine center. The center will eventually be moved across the street to AT&T Stadium. NBC 5’s Larry Collins has the story.

Finding a vaccine has been a frustrating process for many North Texans. But when one Plano woman couldn’t get one last month, she didn’t give up.

Finding a vaccine has been a frustrating process for many North Texans. But when one Plano woman couldn’t get one last month, she didn’t give up.

Texas officials are taking a page from Corpus Christi’s playbook and stepping up efforts to vaccinate seniors against COVID-19. Gov. Greg Abbott announced the Save Our Seniors initiative at a news conference in Corpus Christi on Thursday. Abbott says more than 1,100 National Guard troops will be deployed to help communities identify homebound seniors and vaccinate them against the new...

While the Biden administration is making progress on the vaccine front, it’s also prodding Congress to deliver a new stimulus package to help address the nation’s continuing economic woes.

As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues across Texas and the United States, there are understandably many questions about the vaccines regarding not only how to get one but are they safe and how effective are they at preventing illness. Answers to the questions below are from local health authorities in North Texas, as well as the Texas State Department of…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday is set to address the state’s progress on getting more Texans vaccinated against COVID-19.

The first two COVID-19 vaccine sites run by the federal government opened in Dallas and in Arlington on Wednesday and expect to give 3,000 COVID-19 shots a day at each location.

The first two COVID-19 vaccine sites run by the federal government opened in Dallas and in Arlington on Wednesday and expect to give 3,000 COVID-19 shots a day at each location. NBC 5’s Scott Gordon reports.

Denton County Public Health reports an additional 575 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday with no new deaths.

Fair Park reopened on Wednesday after Dallas County received 15,000 new doses of the Moderna vaccine for those who need their second shot. But, with so many needing their second dose at once, it led to people waiting hours. Last week’s freeze delayed 20,000 people from getting their booster and this week the county is focused on completing the the…

Long lines at the Fair Park vaccine hub were exceptionally long as thousands waited to make up their second shot. Wednesday the federal government launched its program at Fair Park targeting those over 65 and people with certain conditions from vulnerable neighborhoods. NBC 5’s Sophia Beausoleil reports all the talk Wednesday was about wait times.

Do the COVID-19 vaccines reduce the spread of the coronavirus or just hospitalizations? Will you need to get it every year? And can you get by with just one dose? These are just a few of the lingering questions we’ve heard as COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the country. LX News spoke to Dr. Richard Novak, chief of infectious diseases...

Getting COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of all Americans is hard enough. But vaccinating homeless communities poses additional challenges that are even trickier to overcome. They include getting homeless people to mass vaccination sites or bringing the vaccines to the streets, as well as overcoming their mistrust of health officials. Ben Oreskes, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times, joined...

The City of Carrollton is hosting a vaccination registration event on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in partnership with Dallas County and Metrocrest Services.