Vaccine Progress in Bexar County: More than 41% fully vaccinated

Vaccine Progress in Bexar County

Across Bexar County, over 1.422 million vaccine doses have been administered, as of May 10.

• 815,854 Bexar County residents have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, representing 52.5% of the county’s population eligible to receive a vaccination.
• 643,683 Bexar County residents are fully vaccinated, representing 41.5% of the county’s population eligible to receive a vaccination.
• 172,171 Bexar County residents (11.1%) have not yet received their second vaccine dose.

The Department of State Health Services defines “population” as residents who are 16 years of age or older; in Bexar County, this represents more than 1.55 million people. As of Wednesday, May 12, children between the ages of 12 and 15 are eligible to be vaccinated. As of May 13, 117 Bexar County residents ages 12-15 had received at least one vaccine dose.

The CDC states that “when a high percentage of the community is immune to a disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness),” that community will have reached herd immunity, “making the spread of this disease from person to person unlikely.”

71,926 vaccines were administered last week in Bexar County, according to DSHS; a total of 1,422,271 vaccine doses have been administered in the county since vaccination efforts began four months ago.

Across Texas, 9.025 million residents are fully vaccinated. In total, the state has administered 19.927 million vaccine doses, as of May 13. Texas is in the middle of the pack among the rest of the states, with between 30 to 40 percent of its population fully vaccinated, as of May 12:

Latest Coronavirus Numbers

Here are the latest numbers reported by Bexar County and state officials:

Bexar County (data as of Friday, May 14):

• 100 new cases were reported, bringing the total number of cases to 220,617.
• 0 new death was reported; the county’s death toll remains at 3,404.
• 192 patients currently hospitalized; of those, 26 are on ventilators and 55 are in intensive care.

Metro Health reports new data at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Texas (data as of Saturday, May 15):

• 1,983 cases reported, including 1,254 new confirmed, 424 new probable, and 305 backlogged cases. More than 2.919 million Texans have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
• 42 additional deaths were reported, raising the statewide death toll from virus complications to 49,877.
• 2,287 Texans were hospitalized Saturday, which is a decrease of 36 over the previous day.

More county case information is available through the Texas Department of Health Services COVID-19 dashboard.

Bexar County COVID-19 Trends

This week’s update of the Warning Signs and Progress Indicators for Bexar County saw Bexar County holding steady at the low-risk level for another week. The positivity rate dropped by nearly a full percentage point in the last week from 2.6% to 1.7%, as of Monday, May 10.

The county’s seven-day moving average of daily COVID-19 is 202 cases per day. That number is down three over the last week.