The Department of State Health Services says unvaccinated people are 16 times more likely to die from COVID-19, and the head of one medical school wants to revisit vaccine requirements.
Covid patients are still using about 21 percent of hospital beds across Texas, but hospitalizations have started leveling off around 13,000.
Baylor College of Medicine president Paul Klotman says a study showed hospital stays with Omicron have been shorter, and it has been less deadly.
He also says the U.S. should reconsider a vaccine mandate.
Klotman says getting the first shot to more people would be more useful in slowing the spread of Covid than approving another booster for the already-vaccinated.
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