Vaccine update: Sauk Valley administers 147 doses Thursday

July 15, 2021 at 3:38 pm CDT

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 file photo, frozen vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are taken out to thaw, at the MontLegia CHC hospital in Liege, Belgium. The U.S. will buy 500 million more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to share through the COVAX alliance for donation to 92 lower income countries and the African Union over the next year, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. President Joe Biden was set to make the announcement Thursday in a speech before the start of Group of Seven summit. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File) (Francisco Seco/AP)

The Sauk Valley administered an additional 147 coronavirus vaccine doses Thursday, and 62 more people became fully vaccinated.

Whiteside County has administered 45,977 total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, with 23,402 people (42.07%) fully vaccinated. Lee County has had 30,913 doses, with 15,752 people (46.03%) fully vaccinated. Carroll County has administered 9,801 vaccine doses, with 5,197 people (36.31%) fully vaccinated. Ogle County has had 43,250 doses, with 21,657 people (42.53%) fully vaccinated.

There have been 129,941 doses administered and 66,008 people fully vaccinated across Whiteside, Lee, Carroll and Ogle counties.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 21,813 shots, and a total of 12,895,755 COVID-19 vaccines administered.

There are 6,330,947 fully vaccinated people across the state, or 49.69% of the population.

Rachel Rodgers

Rachel Rodgers joined Sauk Valley Media in 2016 covering local government in Dixon and Lee County.