ANDREWS – Texas cities deemed hub areas by the state are the ones receiving consistent and large allotments of virus vaccine. That doesn’t bode well for rural areas that have received sporadic allotments and much fewer doses from the state. Andrews County Judge Charlie Falcon derived a possible solution. Falcon proposed forming a seven-county coalition that could be deemed a hub area. The judge recently brought the idea to Permian Regional Medical Center’s Chief Executive Officer Donny Booth and other local leaders. Booth said the qualifying factor for a hub area is the ability to administer 1,000 vaccine doses daily. “Our plan is trying ...