Since December, thousands of vaccines have been distributed during COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Hidalgo County — a lot of them in partnership with school districts like McAllen ISD, PSJA ISD, Donna ISD and La Joya ISD.
In Hidalgo County, which is about a 5.5 hour drive south of Houston, 2,305 people have died there. And it’s there, in that border community, that our fellow Texans are working to put a face to this pandemic.