Week 65's Covid-19 Report celebrates the 60% milestone for the Texas Border Region. There, Starr County blows the rest of the state away coming in at 68% of the total 12+ population vaccinated. El Paso, whose results merit their own plot below is at 59%. Good Job! A Covid Tracking Project Colleague suggested plotting El Paso Hospitalizations and Cases (per 100,000 basis) vs. % vaccinated to show the correlation. Since El Paso is isolated at the far Western Edge of the state, there is little transmissibility of the infection across populations like you would find, for example, in Travis, Collin, or Fort Bend Counties. Furthermore, El Paso takes up all of Trauma Service Area I (TSA-I) unlike TSA-O (Travis County, shared with 11 other counties including Hays and Williamson), TSA-Q (Fort Bend shared with 8 other counties including Harris), or TSA-E (Collin shared with 18 other counties including Denton, Dallas, and Tarrant) - so, El Paso results are not complicated by ranging demographics. Next week I will address what is going on in the Panhandle? - a part of the state with overall vaccination rate at 34%.
If you are traveling, except for the Border, there is between 40 and 50% chance that those you interact with have been vaccinated. At current rates (1-2% increase per week) it could be well into August before other regions also achieve the 60% milestone.
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