Herkimer County facing vaccine supply and demand challenges
Herkimer County Public Health is working to distribute vaccines, but like other counties, their supply doesn’t meet the demand.
Posted: Jan 14, 2021 6:15 PM
Posted By: WKTV
HERKIMER, N.Y. – Herkimer County Public Health is working to distribute vaccines, but like other counties, their supply doesn’t meet the demand.
Director of Public Health Christina Cain says the county only gets enough vaccines for a fraction of the population each week. Specifically, at Public Health, we might get 100-200 doses weekly. We have a population in this county of just over 64,000 people. That doesn t go very far, she said.
From staff reports
Times Telegram
The number of positive COVID-19 cases continues to rise with 76 new cases and two additional deaths reported as of noon Wednesday, according to Herkimer County Public Health.
That brings the total number of positive cases to 3,605 since mid-March. Forty people have died in Herkimer County since the pandemic began.
There were a total of 1,212 active COVID-19 patients; 54 people were hospitalized.
The number of people who have recovered from the illness now stands at 2,353. A total of 80,527 have tested negative for the virus.
A total of 1,492 people were in mandatory quarantine with public health orders; 720 were in precautionary quarantine; no one was released.