A coalition of Austin-area counties launched the first mass drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Circuit of the Americas racetrack on Saturday.
The effort is a partnership between Bastrop, Travis, Caldwell and Hays counties, as well as Ascension Seton and CommUnity Care Health Centers.
At Saturday’s first vaccine clinic at COTA, 3,000 vaccines were administered in about nine hours. The goal is to eventually grow the COTA clinic to 10,000 vaccines each day, or 50,000 per week.
“We have shown that we’re able to give it out in mass quantities in a way that we couldn’t as individual counties,” Travis County Judge Andy ...