Nearly 15K Fully Vaccinated Against Coronavirus In Kane County

KANE COUNTY, IL — Almost 15,000 people in Kane County are fully inoculated against the coronavirus after receiving two doses of the vaccine, public health data shows. That represents about 2.8 percent of the county’s population.

But public health officials throughout the state are now scrambling to secure second shots for those who have already received the first.

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More than 36,700 people in Kane County are awaiting a second dose, according to statistics from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Officials have said residents should expect a shortage of appointments to receive a first shot of the vaccine as they prioritize those second doses. IDPH officials are hopeful first-dose shipments will increase in March.

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Illinois’ vaccine rollout has been beset by racial disparities, with Black and Latino residents getting vaccines at much slower rates than white residents, according to IDPH data.

Black and Latino residents received 15.2 percent of the more than 2 million doses administered in Illinois by Thursday, despite making up nearly a third of the state’s population.

Those racial disparities are reflected in vaccination data from Kane County.

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Nearly 70 percent of the 66,556 coronavirus vaccine doses administered in the county by Thursday were given to white people, who make up about 57 percent of the county’s population, according to IDPH and U.S. Census Bureau data.

Latino residents have received about 10.4 percent of all doses administered, despite representing just under a third of the county’s population, according to those statistics.

Black residents, who make up about 6 percent of Kane County’s population, have received just 2.79 percent of all doses administered there, the state’s data shows.

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Vaccine administration in Kane County has slowed down over the past four days, due in part to last weekend’s snowstorm. The county’s seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered had been growing steadily for two weeks prior to Sunday, the state’s data shows.

Kane County had about 16,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine on hand, as of Thursday, with 11,075 doses at community partners and 4,900 doses at the county health department.

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