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Five poorly vaccinated clusters – including two in Texas – could put the whole country at risk of spreading new variants of COVID-19, according to a new analysis from Georgetown University.
Areas with concentrations of unvaccinated residents aged 12 and older encompass the areas of West Texas and East Piney Woods – and are of major concern to health experts. Dallas County, where officials said this week herd immunity had been breached, is not either.
Georgetown researchers, who have been tracking vaccination rates since December, found that there are about 30 clusters in the United States that have vaccination rates below the national average of 47.8%. The five they identified as the most vulnerable are scattered across eight states concentrated in the southeastern part of the country, touching Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
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