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Coronavirus in Texas

Texans getting COVID-19 vaccine boosters outpace those getting first shots as omicron bears down

So far this month, at least 1.2 million Texans have gotten booster shots — nearly triple the number of people who received their first doses of the vaccine during the same time.

Syringes sit on a table at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic held in partnership between the Central Texas Food Bank and the University of Texas in Austin on July 21, 2021.

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