Texas records zero Covid-19 deaths for first day in over a year (opens in new tab)

Bloomberg reported yesterday that Texas’ lifting of restrictions had no noticeable effect on the already plateauing case numbers.

Perhaps the herd immunity threshold does not require as high of a vaccination rate if enough people are immune from prior infection. Many people who were infected never took a test because of mild or no symptoms, so they don’t show up in statistics. Immunity from prior infection was recently shown to have the same efficacy as the best-in-class vaccines (95%).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-17/texas-reo...

Always good to hear Corona is becoming less of a threat.

While Texas does not yet have the same level of vaccination as the UK, they did lift restrictions before the UK.

On the other hand if a country is slow to vaccinate (India, Japan), then Corona will be a major health issue for a long time.

In other words, the reporting was slow.