Health & Fitness
Half Of Park Slopers Are Now Fully Vaccinated Against COVID: Data
The ZIP code covering the majority of Park Slope is one of the first in New York City to reach a 50 percent full vaccination rate.
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN —Just about half of adults in Park Slope are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, new data shows.
The 11215 ZIP code — which covers the majority of the neighborhood as well as parts of Gowanus — reached a 50-percent full vaccination rate on Thursday, meaning half of its residents have gotten both doses of the shot against the virus.
The milestone comes, predictably, a few weeks after the ZIP code reached a 50-percent partial vaccination rate, meaning half of adults had gotten their first shot.
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The smaller of Park Slope's ZIP codes, 11217, which covers a northern slice of the neighborhood and Boerum Hill, is a few percentage points from the milestone. 44 percent of residents in that ZIP code had been fully vaccinated as of Thursday.
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The vaccination rates come as the neighborhood's coronavirus rates continue to trend downward.
Just this week, 11215 had the lowest seven-day coronavirus positivity in the borough. On Thursday, 11215 and 11217 were the second and third lowest in Brooklyn, beat only by a few tenths of a percentage point by Brooklyn Heights' 11201 ZIP code.
Brooklyn Heights was also one of the only other ZIP codes in Brooklyn that had reached 50-percent full vaccination as of Thursday. Several other Manhattan ZIP codes have reached the milestone.
The highest vaccination rates continue to be in wealthy, majority-white ZIP codes, underscoring the struggle the state and city have had to fulfill their goal of reaching neighborhoods hardest-hit by the coronavirus pandemic with vaccines.
Here's the latest vaccination numbers for Park Slope:
11215
- At least 1 dose: 38,922 people, or 68 percent
- Fully Vaccinated: 28,395 people, or 50 percent
11217
- At least 1 dose: 22,140 people, or 64 percent
- Fully Vaccinated: 15,303 people, or 44 percent
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