Texas’ Fast-Rising COVID Case Count Tied To Delta Variant And Low Vaccination Rates

By Texas Standard

Published July 22, 2021 at 12:37 PM CDT

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UT-Austin School of Nursing student Emily Houston holds a vial of COVID-19 vaccine Pfizer BioNTech during injections to health care workers at Dell Medical School in Austin.

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The state’s chief epidemiologist says the “steepness” of the increase the cases now is similar to what happened during the early months of the pandemic.