A new study on COVID vaccine rates shows two areas of Texas with large concentrations of unvaccinated residents. The 141 counties in the western panhandle and the eastern Piney Woods are concerns for health experts who fear that could lead to new COVID variants. The study says although more than 50% of Texans are fully vaccinated, nearly all of the COVID deaths in the country were people not vaccinated, and each interaction with a non-vaccinated person raises the risk of new variants of the virus emerging.