Dallas County reaches herd immunity even as new COVID cases continue to hold steady, experts say
Dallas County reaches herd immunity even as new COVID cases continue to hold steady, experts say
The Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, which has tracked COVID-19 data for the county, said herd immunity was reached with nearly half the population having contracted the coronavirus.
A nurse gives a COVID-19 vaccine to a man at Fair Park in Dallas on Friday, May 14, 2021. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
7:08 PM on Jul 7, 2021 CDT
Dallas County crossed a major threshold in its fight to curb the coronavirus pandemic this week, reaching herd immunity on July 4, according to a nonprofit that tracks health data for the county.