Grand Forks County is 39% of the way to coronavirus herd immunity goal
Grand Forks County public health workers believe the county will achieve herd immunity from a novel coronavirus if or when 60% of residents are fully vaccinated. 9:01 pm, Apr. 5, 2021 ×
Michael Dulitz, of the Grand Forks Public Health Department, gives a pandemic update to the City Council during a meeting in October. Eric Hylden / Grand Forks Herald
Grand Forks County is nearly halfway to herd immunity, a key threshold that public health workers hope to meet or exceed as they work to contain a novel coronavirus.
As of Sunday, April 4, 16,320 county residents have either received both doses of a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine or the only needed dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. That’s 39.2% of the 41,671 people needed to reach “herd immunity,” a term that means enough people have been vaccinated against the virus and left it nowhere to go, epidemiologically speaking,