Majority of Cobb residents ‘fully vaccinated’ against COVID-19

Cobb COVID-19 vaccines
To view by Census tract, click here. For a legend, see the chart below, at the right.

While local health officials continue to issue urgent messages about COVID-19, their efforts to get Cobb residents to get “fully vaccinated” recently reached a milestone.

A slight majority of eligible citizens—aged 12 and older— have received both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.Cobb COVID vaccines

Those are the latest figures from the vaccine dashboard of the Georgia Department of Public Health, which shows that 381,465 Cobb residents are fully vaccinated. That’s 51 percent, a figure that’s above the statewide average of 44 percent.

Another 429,617 people, or 57 percent, have received at least one dose of the vaccine. The map above shows vaccination rates via Census tracts, with the higher percentages in darker purple shades and lower rates in light blue and white (see the legend at right).

The Census tract data can be seen in more detail by clicking here; and those numbers also break down vaccination rates by age, sex and race.

Earlier this week Cobb and Douglas Public health announced that Pfizer and Moderna booster shots are available to select people with weakened immune systems.

Transmission rates of COVID-19 continue to rise in Cobb and Georgia. Cobb and Douglas Public Health reported Wednesday that the 14-day average of cases her 100,000 people was at 834, several times higher than the “high community spread” threshold of 100 cases per 1000,000.

And Cobb’s COVID-19 test positivity rate also is high, at 13 percent, well above the ideal 5-percent threshold.

But as has happened in nearby Southern states, including Florida, the current surge, marked by the rapidly transmissable Delta variant, could be reaching a peak.

The Georgia DPH Daily Status Report shows that the 7-day moving average of cases in Cobb according to date of onset was 418, as of Aug. 19. That’s the last day before a 14-day window that’s observed in tracking onset data that’s considered preliminary.

Since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, there have been 73,805 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Cobb County, and 1,098 deaths.

Cobb COVID cases 9.2.21
To view more data from Georgia DPH, click here.

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1 thought on “Majority of Cobb residents ‘fully vaccinated’ against COVID-19”

  1. Too bad no one is following the number of Delta Variant cases as compared to # of Vaccinated people. This high number of reported cases seems to be illogical if the Vax and masks really work. What are the number of deaths from the Delta Variant?

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