“My dad had a lot of living left and he had a lot more to give.” As the pandemic moves into its third year, recent data provides a clearer picture of COVID-19’s deadly impact on Texas.
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Vaccines became available to those 12 and older last May. Between then and January, COVID-19 killed about 29,000 Texans. About 82% of those deaths, including Sha’Niyah’s, were among people who had not been vaccinated. Brent Earles, 65, of Dallas, was one of those Texans in January. He worked as a shopping mall Santa for years, hoisting children onto his lap and listening to their Christmas wishes.
In the beginning, Earles’ family and doctors thought Brent would make it. He had battled with COVID-19 pneumonia in both lungs. Two weeks in the hospital stripped him of 20 pounds, but he had improved enough that doctors prepared to move him out of the ICU. As Brent was preparing to move out of the ICU, Brent’s mother, who was unvaccinated, died of COVID-19. Soon after, new scans revealed a severe regression in Brent’s lungs.
Texas is now averaging about 60 deaths a day, down from over 200 daily deaths at the height of omicron. During the delta variant peak, there was an average of 300 deaths in one day.
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