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Texas Motor Speedway Opens Gates To Begin Vaccinating Thousands At Drive-Thru Hub

County health officials hope to eventually vaccinate upwards of 10,000 people a day.

(CBS News)

February 2, 2021

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Denton County has opened it’s latest COVID-19 vaccination clinic and it’s a big one — at the Texas Motor Speedway.

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County health officials hope to eventually vaccinate upwards of 10,000 people a day, in what the county says is the largest drive-thru vaccination site in the state and one of the biggest in the country.

There will be a crowd of cars at the Texas Motor Speedway, but this time for a different reason. Starting February 2 the site will accommodate 16 lanes of cars and handle 1,000 vaccinations an hour.

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