Central Texas COVID: Active cases rise, vaccination rates don’t, masks remain optional Megan Vanselow © Provided by Waco-Temple-Bryan KWTX-TV Vaccination rates in Central Texas lag state rates by 15% or more. (AP/file)
(KWTX) – KWTX was interviewing McLennan County Health Authority Dr. Farley Verner Wednesday when news broke that Gov. Greg Abbott will not impose a mask mandate as the Delta variant of COVID-19 fuels an increase in cases of the virus in Central Texas where not quite 36% of residents 12 and older are fully vaccinated.
“Vaccines are effective and masks are effective and the use of both is still strongly encouraged,” Verner said.
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LAMPASAS â The Spring Ho festival is back after being canceled last year due to COVID-19 concerns, and the residents of Lampasas are ecstatic as the Spring Ho parade went by in a blur of pagentry, civic pride and water guns.
According to Lampasas County Judge Randy Hoyer, water guns are a staple for the event.
Both attendees and parade marchers were doused in water by the end of the event in what has become a tradition for the parade.
Former Lampasas High School âBadgerâ turned Olympian Steffin McCarter was welcomed by the crowd as he beamed from the back of a pickup truck, and adjacent to the parade was young Isaac White, who runs a lemonade stand with his mother every year.