More Than 80% Of Eligible Howard County Residents Now Fully Vaccinated For COVID-19

ELLICOTT CITY (WJZ) — More than 80% of eligible Howard County residents are afloat vaccinated for COVID-19, County Executive Calvin Ball announced Wednesday, citing authorities metrics.

Howard County is the archetypal successful the authorities to execute that metric. Just implicit two-thirds of the county’s full colonisation is afloat vaccinated.

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“I’m truthful arrogant of our community. This could not person been accomplished alone, and I privation to convey our archetypal responders, healthcare workers, volunteers, and State partners who person worked tirelessly connected the beforehand lines since December to get shots into arms,” Ball said successful a statement. “These metrics bespeak what we each cognize – erstwhile times are tough, our assemblage comes unneurotic to instrumentality attraction and enactment each other. With the caller uptick of COVID-19 cases and the spreading of the delta variant, it’s go abundantly wide however important it is to get vaccinated.”

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As of Wednesday, 85% of region residents 12 and up person gotten astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine. The county’s seven-day positivity complaint is 2.07%. The 7-day mean lawsuit per 100,000 residents is astatine 5.57. Howard County General Hospital has a COVID-19 utilization complaint of 1.6%.

“Howard County residents person done an unthinkable occupation of protecting themselves, their families and the assemblage by getting vaccinated. This is simply a large milestone to scope successful our combat against the COVID-19 virus,” said Dr. Maura Rossman, the county’s wellness officer. “However, we cognize that determination are much radical who are eligible for the vaccine, but person yet to instrumentality that important adjacent measurement to person the vaccination.”

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She said that, contempt the bully quality astir vaccines, metrics are trending up owed to the much contagious and transmissible Delta variant.

CBS Baltimore Staff