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COVID-19 cases have been declining in St. Clair County for a few weeks, and local health officials are already contemplating how to prevent the next surge — when and if it comes.
Dr. Annette Mercatante, the county’s medical health officer, said immunizations against the virus continue to be the health department’s primary goal.
But in an interview Wednesday, she admitted progress is slowing down.
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“So, what keeps me awake at night is realizing that this pace of vaccination that we're at now is probably not fast enough to have the kind of impact we'd like on more infections the summer, but I hope I'm wrong,” Mercatante said. “The virus has proven one thing, and that is that we don't know a lot about it.”