Researchers at the UNT Health Science Center predict if COVID-19 vaccination rates continue, North Texas could hit herd immunity by mid-June.
"We are close," said Dr. Rajesh Nandy, associate professor of biostats and epidemiology at the Fort Worth school. "We can see the end of the tunnel I guess but we are not out of the woods yet."
Nandy said roughly 60% of people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have either had the virus or the vaccine.
The goal to reach herd immunity is 80%, he said.
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