LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 20: Student registered nurse Camille Endicio prepares Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination syringes as at a new, walk-up mobile COVID-19 clinic launched today to provide the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to underserved communities in Los Angeles. The walk-up clinic was presented by Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas in partnership with CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (CHA HPMC) and the Southern California Eye Institute (SCEI). The Mobile Vaccine Clinic at 1819 S. Western Avenue will be open every Tuesday starting April 20 through May 25 providing free vaccines to community members who are eligible per LA County Department of Public Health (LAC DPH) vaccine distribution guidelines as they partnered with Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science to provide student volunteers for on-site registration allowing for walk-up appointments for community members and further ensuring vaccine access in our hardest-hit communities. Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images).
One Texan in every four has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, federal health officials said Tuesday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said 37% of the state's population had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
State health officials said 4,191 new COVID-19 cases and 49 new COVID-19 deaths were reported Tuesday. That brought the state's pandemic death toll to 49,973, or 174 per 100,000 population, Johns Hopkins University researchers said. Those deaths come from almost 3.1 million cases tabulated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The state's pandemic death toll remains the nation's third-highest, and its per capita death rate is the nation's 23rd highest, according to Johns Hopkins data. Over the past two weeks, the data show the rolling average number of daily new Texas cases has decreased by almost 240, a decrease of almost 7%.
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There were 161.9 new cases per 100,000 people in Texas over the past two weeks, which ranks 40th in the country for new cases per capita. One in every 1,227 people in Texas tested positive in the past week, according to Johns Hopkins data.
