Vaccine push continues across Jefferson County

The Jefferson County Public Health Department continues to “highly recommend” vaccination, Supervisor Pam Hanna said.

“No vaccine is 100% effective, however, these vaccines are proven to provide protection against serious illness,” she said. She added that the vaccine is the most effective way to protect yourself against the virus and its variants to date.

Hanna said that in Jefferson County, and in the U.S. as a whole, according to a Health Alert Network report issued by the CDC, the majority of recent reported coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been among unvaccinated people. NBC News reported on July 30 that there have been 125,682 breakthrough cases in 38 states, which makes up less than 0.08% of the 164.2 million-plus people who have been vaccinated since January 2021. However, the total number of breakthrough cases is likely higher, because nine states did not provide any information, NBC news wrote.