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Border counties in Texas show some of the highest rates of immunization but are now preparing for a possible rise in infection cases from the Delta variant. In summer 2020, as the pandemic ravaged communities across the country, national media placed the Texas-Mexico border region in the limelight as a coronavirus hot spot. At the time, death rates in the Rio Grande Valley surpassed the national average. The surge in infections came only weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order to reopen the Texas economy on May 1, 2020, took effect. For a vulnerable community with a high rate of underlying health conditions and a low rate of insured individuals, the results were drastic.

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