RACINE â Hundreds of COVID-19 vaccination appointments have gone unfilled in Racine.
The cityâs health department reports that it transferred 510 doses to other providers because there were so many unfilled appointments at Festival Hall the week of April 12, in addition to 93 cancellations or no-shows that week at the Festival Hall vaccination site. The week prior, there were only 217 cancellations or no shows and zero transfers of doses.
Bowersox
âIn order for us to get control of this (pandemic), we need to be vaccinated,â said Public Health Administrator Dottie-Kay Bowersox.
Bowersox thinks some of that lack of demand should be blamed on the loss of trust in vaccinations after use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was put on pause last week, the result of 6 cases out of 6.8 million vaccinations â less than 1 per 1 million vaccinated â being linked to blood clots in the brain.
RACINE â Hundreds of COVID-19 vaccination appointments have gone unfilled in Racine.
The cityâs health department reports that it transferred 510 doses to other providers because there were so many unfilled appointments at Festival Hall the week of April 12, in addition to 93 cancellations or no-shows that week at the Festival Hall vaccination site. The week prior, there were only 217 cancellations or no shows and zero transfers of doses.
Bowersox
âIn order for us to get control of this (pandemic), we need to be vaccinated,â said Public Health Administrator Dottie-Kay Bowersox.
Bowersox thinks some of that lack of demand should be blamed on the loss of trust in vaccinations after use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was put on pause last week, the result of 6 cases out of 6.8 million vaccinations â less than 1 per 1 million vaccinated â being linked to blood clots in the brain.
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Pearce
Cody Pearce, the cityâs epidemiologist, told the City Council that as of Monday, the Public Health Department confirmed another 94 cases over the past week. âWhile that may not sound like a lot in comparison to the overall number of cases,â Pearce told the council Monday, âitâs an increase of almost three times the cases we saw a month ago where we saw just 27 cases in a seven-day period back in March.â
Likewise, hospitalizations have ticked upward â from a low of 194 statewide on March 21 to 357 as of Monday, nearly a month later, according to the Wisconsin Hospital Association â even if theyâre nowhere near the spike of more than 2,000 hospitalized patients seen in mid-November. Deaths attributed to COVID-19 have not seen a similar spike, although throughout the pandemic spikes in death rates are usually 2-8 weeks behind spikes in cases, according to Harvard research.