Checking Cobb COVID-19 vaccination data by census tracts

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Cobb COVID-19 vaccination data
To view figures by census tract, click here, then check the box of the county of your choice.

A new feature of the Georgia Department of Public Health COVID-19 vaccine dashboard includes figures according to census tract.

Other breakdowns include vaccination rates according to race and in age and racial groups.

Here’s the link to the census tract map, which is color-coded accordingly:

  • Dark purple: 3,931-10,351 people vaccinated;
  • Light purple: 3,072-3,930 people vaccinated;
  • Dark blue: 2,598-3,072 people vaccinated;
  • Light blue: 2,041-2,598 people vaccinated;
  • White: fewer than 2,041 people vaccinated.

You’ll have to then check the box of Cobb County (or any other county in the state, for that matter) to view specific census tract data.

There are eight census tracts in the East Cobb area that have some of the highest vaccination numbers in the county.

According to the Georgia DPH vaccine dashboard, there have been 727,952 vaccine doses administered in Cobb County, with 350,641 of them considered “fully vaccinated.”

That means individuals have had either both of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That figure represents 47 percent of all eligible Cobb citizens (age 12 or older).

Another 388,170 people in Cobb, or 52 percent, have received the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.

Georgia DPH continues to update its COVID-19 Daily Status Report as the number of cases is spiking up slightly with the growth of the Delta variant.

In Cobb, the transmission rate of the virus (PCR test only) averaged 64 cases per 100,000 people over the past two weeks. That’s still considered below the “high” spread threshold of 100 cases per 100,000, but that figure was in the 30s earlier in July.

Still, the 7-day moving average of COVID-19 cases in Cobb is under 100 according to date of onset figures, similar to levels before a surge of cases in the county and state last summer.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Dr. Janet Memark, director of Cobb and Douglas Public Health, said the combined (PCR-Antigen) transmission rate in Cobb is 111 cases per 100,000, and the test positivity rate has gone up to 3.5 percent.

She said the Delta variant appears to be 12 percent of specimens in Georgia.

“We are expecting a pretty big expansion of Delta in the new data to come, considering it has been doubling at least every 2 weeks and is the most dominant strain in the United States,” Memark said in a statement.”

“The vaccines continue to show protection against this variant. Almost all hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to be unvaccinated people.”

Memark encouraged everyone ages 12 and older to get vaccinated who has not already done so.

For more information about COVID-19 vaccines, visit the Cobb and Douglas Public Health website.

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