Steve Miff, CEO, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation As of July 4, Dallas County had “reached the 80 percent [COVID-19] herd immunity threshold,” Steve Miff, CEO of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation.
But the county still has work to do in its ongoing battle against the pandemic, and vaccinations are key. The threshold, Miff explained, was reached by 46.6 percent of the county’s population having been vaccinated and 48.7 percent having developed natural immunity by recovering from a COVID-19 infection.
But he stressed, while this benchmark represents “good progress, it is important that we understand the work is not over. We must continue to push for vaccinations so COVID and its variants can’t again take hold and diminish the