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Five months after COVID vaccines rolled out in Chatham County and an initial shortage made for long lines at the local health department in January and February, supply is no longer a problem. But demand is. In general, our vaccine demand has fallen down significantly, said Dr. Lawton Davis, director of the eight-county Coastal Health District. We re now averaging a little over 200 a day here in Chatham County, where we were sometimes over 1,000 a day.
The Georgia Department of Public Health s Vaccine Dashboard indicates the rate of full vaccination in Chatham County is 29%. In Bryan it s 27% and in Effingham, 20%.
Statewide, women have outpaced men by a margin of about 427,000 in getting vaccinated with at least one dose. Older people, who were offered the vaccine beginning in January, have much higher vaccination rates than do younger people. Over 91% of Georgians aged 65 or older have received at least one dose.
Two months into the COVID vaccines distribution, nearly 50,000 Chatham County residents have received at least one dose of vaccine, for a rate of 26,365 per 100,000 residents. That s about 1.6 times better than the statewide rate of 16,594 per 10,000 residents.
But who in Chatham County is most likely to have gotten the vaccine is less clear. Statewide, the Georgia Department of Public Health Vaccine Dashboard as of Monday at noon indicated about 17% of recipients so far have been Black, 63% white and 4% Asian. Georgia is about 33% Black, 60% white, and 4% Asian.
Less than 2% of recipients statewide identified as Hispanic, though no ethnicity was listed for more than a third of vaccine recipients.