And that restaurant was smack in the middle of one of about a dozen Texas counties that has been receiving a greater per capita share of the pandemic-fighting vaccines than just about every other region of the state.
The disparity did not go unnoticed by Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Laredo, who just a few days earlier had complained to reporters that he had to beg the governor s office to get what he called a fair share of the Texas-bound vaccines to the counties in his district. Webb County hasn t been getting what it should be getting, Cuellar said in a recent interview about his home county along the Rio Grande. Similar areas like Lubbock or Smith County (in East Texas), they re around the same population . but Lubbock gets double the number of people who are fully vaccinated.
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