* The Illinois Department of Public Health just published some new self-reported county-by-county numbers and, man, there are a lot of county health departments sitting on vaccines. Click here. According to IDPH, those county departments had 172,999 vaccines on-hand as of Friday, while their “community partners” (like pharmacies) have another 117,807 doses, for a grand
* The Illinois Department of Public Health just published some new self-reported county-by-county numbers and, man, there are a lot of county health departments sitting on vaccines. Click here.
According to IDPH, those county departments had 172,999 vaccines on-hand as of Friday, while their “community partners” (like pharmacies) have another 117,807 doses, for a grand total of 290,806. Some of these could be second doses waiting to be administered, but that appears to be the minority.
Chicago isn’t reporting its data to the state, but suburban Cook County, with more than 2.4 million people, claims it has 44,390 doses at the county level and another 37,967 with community partners, for a total of 82,357 available doses – or about 3.4 percent of its population.
Sangamon County says it has 16,713 total doses available, or 8.6 percent of its population. Even so, Sangamon is restricting its 1B program to only those 85 and above.
Tiny Pulaski County, population 5,510, reports having 3,680 doses sitting around. That’s a whopping 67 percent of its population. The county has only vaccinated 202 people, and only 23 of those are fully vaccinated. What the heck?
I heard last week from a local that there were some issues with Madison County getting people vaxed. The county has 10,674 doses available, with another 1,918 at their community partners’ locations, for a total of 12,592.
* On the other end of the spectrum, 30 county public health departments had no vaccine doses on-hand as of Friday. And 14 of those also report no doses at their partners’ sites. The state delivers vaccines to the counties twice a week (Monday is a big delivery day), so those counties with no doses on hand as of Friday appear to be more efficient at getting doses into arms. I’m told Greene County is one of those high performers.
The local health departments asked that they be allowed to run the local programs because they have experience with similar efforts. Oops.
As the vaccine becomes more available, the local health departments will become a smaller component of the administration chain, the administration tells me.
– Posted by Rich Miller
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