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This leaves the younger population and unvaccinated people much more susceptible to new variants.
Most of the Jefferson County’s new COVID cases are among unvaccinated young people.
“One reason is because of the overall lower vaccination rate,” Joshi said. “Secondly, the delta variant especially affects younger people, and our vaccination rate among the teenagers is much lower.
In Jefferson County, only 13 percent of those ages 12–15 years old have gotten at least one vaccine dose.
Doctor Msonthi Levine said he fears it will take a harsh reality check for more Southeast Texans to get vaccinated.
“Unfortunately, in my opinion, we would have to get back to some pretty staggering numbers of cases and deaths locally for Southeast Texans to start getting vaccines,” he said.