MISCELLANEOUS India’s pandemic death toll has passed 300,000. That number, likely an undercount, is the third-highest official Covid-19 death total in the world, behind only the United States and Brazil. [BBC] Half of US states have now vaccinated at least 50 percent of their adult populations as Covid-19 rates continue to fall; case and death counts are now at their lowest point since early last year. [CNN / Christina Maxouris] Beto O’Rourke may be getting set to challenge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for the governor's mansion in Austin. Actor Matthew McConaughey is also mulling a run. [Axios / Orion Rummler]