By Madalyn O Neill
May 26, 2021 | 9:50 PM
That stands out to Ajay Sethi, associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin â Madison, as he looks at county level data.
âThere are some counties where only a quarter of residents have had one shot or both shots,â Sethi said. âOthers are on the high end, over 60%.â
That includes Dane County, where 65.6% of people have gotten at least one shot, according to state data. That number ranges throughout the state, sitting at 45.7% in Rock County and going as low as 26.2% in Taylor County.
If that disparity continues, Sethi said we could start to see impacts.
Geographical disparities in vaccination could lead to COVID hotspots where outbreaks are more likely
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“I’ll say it’s not a panacea of any kind, but it is yet another tool,” he said.
“This app makes contact tracing a more effective, efficient tool,” said UW-Madison Professor Oguz Alagoz, who also models COVID-19 spread. He said while the app has its own barriers, it can cut down the on lag and unknowns that come with manual contact tracing, such as if a COVID-positive person can’t name everyone they’ve been in contact with or if a contact tracer doesn’t have the information to get ahold of someone.
Alagoz said because the app doesn’t track personal data, it’s hard to say exactly how effective it has been elsewhere, but he noted that people ages about 15 to 45 have been more likely to download the app.