The FDA gave Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine full approval on Monday, August 23.
Chris Van Deusen with the Texas Department of State Health Services says vaccination rates had been picking up before that, courtesy of the highly contagious delta variant. "That's continuing the general trend we've seen over the last couple of month, an increasing number of vaccines. We saw a really big pickup last week and that fell off a little bit, maybe with kids being back in school."
He says: "I think people really got a picture that we're facing a serious situation and people who may have been putting it off or thinking it's not something that's going to affect me may have come around."
The state had been giving out as few as 44,000 a day right before the vaccination surge. Van Deusen says they're now averaging about 90,000 a day. 300,000 vaccines were being given daily during the winter peak.
You can check the daily vaccination rates here.
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