A volunteer checks in a patient who will receive a vaccine at a 24-hour vaccination event at Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex in Austin on March 6. Texas has ranked low among states in vaccinations for COVID-19, but state officials say rankings don't tell the whole story of the state's vaccination record.
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Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune
As Texas lumbers toward its goal of vaccinating most of its 22 million residents eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, the state continues to show up in the lower half of some national rankings measuring statesâ progress toward reaching herd immunity against the coronavirus.
Texas ranks 45th nationally in terms of the overall percentage of its population fully vaccinated, according to Beckerâs Hospital Review, a business publication whose rankings are widely circulated. On Friday it ranked 36th in terms of how fast allocated doses are going into arms.