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Necole Williams has a band-aid covering her injection site at a 24-hour vaccination event at Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex on March 6, 2021, in Austin. Family Hospital Systems hosted the drive-thru vaccine event with an 80s theme and equipped to vaccinate 7,000 people Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune

Texans 50 and older will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine starting March 15

Texans age 50 and older will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine beginning March 15, state health officials announced Wednesday.

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A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccination in Austin. State health officials say vaccine providers can't require Texans to show evidence of an eligible medical condition, which makes "line jumping" difficult to prevent. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune

Texans don’t have to prove they’re eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and some are jumping the line. Here’s why.

When a new mom in Austin found out that COVID-19 vaccine appointments were open in Killeen, she sent her healthy, 28-year-old husband and her 65-year-old mother to get their injections.

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Above, Mercy Miller, who was born in 1918 and lived through the Spanish flu pandemic, received her first COVID-19 vaccine dose on Monday. Photos courtesy of Brookdale San Marcos North 

A SHOT OF HOPE

Brookdale San Marcos North, a senior-living facility, recently had residents, associates and essential caregivers receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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