Nearly 60% Of Wayne County Residents Have Been Vaccinated

WAYNE COUNTY, MI — Nearly 60 percent of Wayne County residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Wayne County Health strategist Dr. Mouhanad Hammami said this week in his bi-weekly appearance before Wayne County Commissioners.

Hammami said more than 500,000 vaccinations have been administered in Wayne County, accounting for more than 59 percent of the county's eligible residents. Those figures do not include Detroit, however, which compiles its own COVID-19 vaccination numbers.

“Wayne County continues to make progress in getting residents vaccinated and seeing the number of COVID cases decline,” Wayne County Commissioner Monique BakerMcCormick, who chairs the county's human services committee. “These numbers show that vaccines do work.”

Nearly half — 49.3 percent — of out-county residents are not fully vaccinated, officials said, compared to 45.2 percent statewide and 25.7 percent in the city.

Meanwhile, Michigan's COVID-19 cases have begun trending downward. But despite that positive news, Hammami told commissioners that vaccinations should continue to increase to reach the 75 percent level some health experts said is necessary to reach herd immunity.