Santa Cruz County COVID vaccine updates: At least one shot for 73.5% of eligible residents
Quick Take
The county has rolled out a new vaccination dashboard, and it sorts vaccine progress by demographic, age and health equity metrics down to the ZIP code.
Some 73.5% of all eligible Santa Cruz County residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, per data released Monday — putting the county in the middle of the pack compared to its neighbors.
In Santa Clara and Monterey counties, that figure is 77.6% and 62%, respectively; San Benito County reported a 55% rate, while in San Mateo County, 82.9% of eligible residents have had at least one shot.
Quick Take
It is possible for schools to reopen safely in places where coronavirus is under control as long as certain steps are...
Out of all Santa Cruz County residents — including those too young for the shot — 63.1% have had at least one dose.
Santa Cruz County released a new public dashboard of vaccination progress data Monday which, in addition to showing progress within age groups, shows demographic information on who has been vaccinated.
According to the dashboard, 64.7% of the eligible Latinx population has received at least one dose, along with 63.6% of the eligible white population.
Vaccination rates appear similar among the different health equity quartiles (a metric of socio-economic factors).
In quartile 2, the least healthy quartile represented in Santa Cruz County, 69.8% of the population is at least partially vaccinated, compared to 70.4 and 70.3 in quartiles 3 and 4, respectively.