Nueces county saw its first case of the COVID-19 strain on March 21, 2020.
A little more than a year and a half later, we're still living through the pandemic.
Vaccines to help control the novel coronavirus have been available in the Coastal Bend since January, and new case counts slowly began to trend downward as more people were immunized. However, the Delta variant brought a resurgence in July that is just now beginning to abate.