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Analysis: COVID-19 vaccines are coming to Texas, along with a ranking of who’s most essential

Who gets the first batch of vaccines? And the second, and the third? This political snaggle starts with very good news. By mid-month, Texas will get up to 1.4 million first doses of the two-dose coronavirus vaccine candidates from Pfizer and Moderna, Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday. That’s not enough for everybody in a state with 30 million people, and state officials have said health care workers will be first in line for the shots, followed by nursing home staffers, emergency medical service drivers, and paramedics and home health aides. The list goes on, and if you think about the numbers, it’s ...

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