Last Updated: March 2
Here are the latest covid vaccination numbers as of Tuesday, March 2.
In Flagler County, 22,856 people have received at least one of the two required shots, an increase of 3,238 in a single week, and 9,902 have received both shots, an increase of nearly 3,000 in the past seven days, reflecting a surge of shots in what until now has been the most high-volume week of vaccinations in the county.
So far, 19.9 percent of the county’s population–a fifth of the county’s 115,000 people–has been inoculated with at least one shot, which in itself provides significant protection from severe complications from Covid-19. So far 19,311 of Flagler County’s 36,500 people who are 65 and over have been vaccinated with at least one shot, representing 53 percent of the senior population (age 65 and over), up from 45 percent seven days ago. That’s a higher proportion than in the state as a whole, where 47.1 percent of those 65 and over have been inoculated at least once.
In Florida, 3 million people have received at least one shot, or 14.1 percent of the population, and 1.7 million have received both shots, or nearly 8 percent, up from 6.5 percent seven days ago. A total of 4.7 million doses have been administered statewide, including 505,300 in the past seven days (up by about 30,000 over the previous week), an average of 72,185 shots per day statewide, according to the Florida Department of Health. Florida ranks 36th in the rate of inoculation among American states and the District of Columbia, falling significantly, from 27th, in the past seven days. Alaska is first, with nearly a quarter of its population getting at least one shot, followed by New Mexico, South Dakota, Connecticut and North Dakota, all of which have crossed the 20 percent threshold. Puerto Rico is at the bottom of the chart, at 11 percent, with Georgia, Texas, Washington, D.C. and Utah one point above.
In Flagler in the last seven days, 5,617 first or second doses have been administered at all locations–those run by the Flagler Health Department, Publix, AdventHealth Palm Coast and pharmacies inoculating residents of assisted living facilities and nursing homes–for an average of 802 shots per day. That’s up from 4,235 in the previous seven days. In the past seven days, 3,021 people in Flagler County have completed their two-dose series an increase of more than 1,000 over the previous week.
Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder had predicted that the past seven days would be “our busiest week for administering vaccines to Flagler County residents,” and proved right, with the county’s waiting list of some 12,000 names depleted.
The health department continues to receive 1,600 doses a week. It is administering them primarily at the Flagler County Fairgrounds. “The whole concern about second doses is now a non-issue,” Flagler Emergency Management Chief Jonathan Lord said. The county’s 1,600 doses are in addition to the 1,200 weekly doses provided by four Publix stores and 400 doses CVS is doing weekly.
Keep in mind: Flagler’s vaccination numbers only reflect the total number of shots administered in the county. The numbers are not resident-specific. In other words, numerous residents from other counties may have gotten their shots in Flagler, just as numerous Flagler County residents are traveling to St. Johns, Volusia, Duval and elsewhere to get theirs.
Former County Commissioner Charlie Ericksen, who is 78, on Monday described his experience of going to Regency Mall in Jacksonville to get his first shot. “We pulled into the parking lot,” Ericksen said in an appearance before his former commission colleagues, “there was National Guard folks there, there were nurses there, there were hundreds of people. There was no wait. Three minutes, and I was inside in front of a person who took down my medical history, asked me about the vaccine shot. Within two minutes after that I was administered a shot, and I was put on a 10-minute leave to see if there was going to be any reaction, and then I was on my way home. Shots are available. They’re doing 1,000-plus people a day. There’s no crowds. There’s no cars in the parking lot. I don’t know why people don’t know that.”
Clearly, of course, people do know, given Flagler County’s numbers, though Ericksen said he never got a call back from his attempts to get a shot in Flagler–an experience echoed by other residents, too.
In the United States, 15 percent of the population has received at least one shot, 7.7 percent has received both. That places the United States in fourth place worldwide in the rate of vaccination, behind Israel, which has vaccinated 95 percent of its population with at least one shot (not including Palestinians under Israeli occupation), the United Arab Emirates (61 percent), and Great Britain (31 percent), according to Oxford University’s Our World in Data (see below).
The nation was inoculating just under 200,000 people per day in late December. The seven-day average was up to 900,000 a day by Jan. 20. It is now 1.8 million per day, exceeding the goal of 1.5 million per day President Biden set in order to have 100 million people inoculated in his first 100 days. At the current pace, half the population of the United States will be vaccinated with at least one dose by July 2, 70 percent by Sept. 10, and 90 percent by Thanksgiving, according to projections based on figures by the Centers for Disease Control. Last week, the 90 percent mark was expected to be reached by Christmas. The improvement signals the increase in dosages being administered, with yet more vaccines ahead, now that the Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine has been approved for distribution.
The disease itself continues to exact a steep toll. As of today, 92 Flagler County residents have died of the disease, 330 have been hospitalized, and 6,000 have been confirmed to have been infected. The actual number of infections is significantly higher, health department officials estimate.
In Florida, 1.9 million residents have been infected, 31,000 have died of the disease. Deaths in the United States from covid-19 are at 514,404. Nearly 29 million Americans have been infected.
Incidences of new coronavirus infections in Flagler have fallen significantly from their post-holiday peak, down to 134 for the week ending Feb. 13, the lowest weekly total since the week of Nov. 14. But the weekly totals have risen two weeks in a row since, to 161 for the week ending Saturday, despite limited testing (the health department held just two days of free testing last week, though clinics continue to test daily, but at a cost.)
“We had a nice precipitous drop, I think most of the country did too,” Lord said on Monday in a briefing to the county commission. “You see these little spikes of up and down but we’re staying lower than we were a month ago, so that’s a good sign. The lesson here is that Covid-19 is not over, even though vaccines are being pushed off, it’s not over. There’s still continuing virus spread and it’s important for workers, residents, visitors, to keep doing the very simple face-mask wearing, social distancing and frequent handwashing, those very simple activities really do make a difference.”
See also:
- Coronavirus Vaccination Worldwide
- The latest Flagler and Florida vaccination report
- CDC Covid vaccine data tracker
- The Feb. 23 vaccine update
BLS says
With the large number of snowbirds here, how do we know the actual percentage of people over 65 who have been vaccinated?
Richard says
Well if they are having problems getting people to show up for FREE vaccinations may I STRONGLY suggest that they open the age group up to 45 and older. No sense in wasting that precious vaccine! I’d bet that there would be lines out the door and into the parking lot.
metoo says
That’s great thanks to other counties and cities outside of Flagler. This county and city are ONLY interested in taking care of the rich.
jim dana says
We had to go to St Johns County to get our vaccines – other family members had to go to Volusia County!!!
CB from OC says
Thank Trump and Governor DeSantis for this high percentage.
I am sure plenty of over 65 Democrats here in Flagler put their “politics” aside to receive this vaccination.
Note also that Harris and her husband,
along with AOC and the Bidens all went to the head of the line months ago.
End of Story, hypocrites.
Thank God someone who knew how to put together a program to solve, instead of create more problems at the time.
Enjoy your $4 per gallon gas this summer, and inflation as the cost of everything rises in price.
And that is just the start.
jim dana says
Donald and Melania got their vaccines in January – you may want to keep up on the news.
Mark says
Um hello!? Gas prices have dropped substantialy over the last year. Of course they will be going back up. So are we not gonna appreciate the time gas was cheap? Are we only gonna complain when the gas goes back to normal? So unAmerican of you.
Mark says
How do you know if the low price isn’t the normal price?
Pogo says
@”…Thank God someone who knew how to put together a program to solve, instead of create more problems at the time…”
Thank God if you like, but certainly not trump, his grafting family, cronies and lickspittle who created shortages and bidding wars; trump and elected Republicans, e.g., cannibals like rick scott, who dismantled and starved floriduh’s ability to respond to this moment. While you’re giving thanks – thank this man:
How the biotech investor behind Moderna is using the ‘immigrant mindset’ to take on COVID-19
By Erika Fry
“At a time when the world is just waking up to all the ways in which the planet was woefully ill-prepared for a new, highly contagious pathogen and the global pandemic it has wrought, Noubar Afeyan, founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a Cambridge, Mass., biotech incubator, is thinking about the technology that will prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening again: “a pathogen defense shield.”…”
“…Afeyan, an Armenian entrepreneur who was born in Lebanon and left the country with his family during its civil war, credits his background as an immigrant in his success and encourages others to realize the inherent value in the immigrant experience…”
Link to complete text
https://fortune.com/2020/05/19/leadership-next-moderna-noubar-afeyan-flagship-pioneering-coronavirus-vaccine/
Sherry says
Not to confuse anyone with actual facts. Credible studies clearly show that a higher percentage of Anti-Vaxxers are Republican and is also reflected in right winged media and political representatives:
Table 1. Percentage of anti-vaxxers and vaxxers following at least one account from
different groups and the difference between the percentage of anti-vaxxers and vaxxers.
Number of accounts in each group is in parenthesis.
% of Anti-Vaxxers % of Vaxxers Difference
Hindu (150) 5.23 10.1 -4.87
Judaism (150) 7.04 4.58 2.46
Christian (150) 17.4 6.30 11.1
Islam (150) 5.99 6.64 -0.65
Democrat (282) 19.2 15.9 3.30
Republican (249) 32.2 9.41 22.8
State Media (106) 15.3 24.6 -9.30
Medical Assc. & Inst. (50) 15.7 17.0 -1.30
Doctors (50) 6.81 6.40 0.41
Left Leaning Media (17) 25.6 27.9 -2.30
Mixed Audience Media (7) 15.2 15.0 0.20
Right Leaning Media (6) 28.5 6.26 22.2
Political Inclination: Figure 2 visualizes the average η value of Republican and
Democrat Congress members for each state in the senate and the house of representatives. In both the houses, we see a clear difference between Republican and Democrat. There are more anti-vaxxers following Republicans than Democrats.
Interestingly, this pattern remains consistent for senators of all parts of the US except for Florida, Pennsylvania, and Maine. However, in the case of representatives, only among the followers of Nevada and New Jersey representatives from the Republican party have more Vaxxers than Anti-Vaxxers. For most of the other states, there is no abrupt difference between the two houses. States such as the Dakotas, Louisiana, Wyoming, and Arizona have a very high fraction of Anti-vaxxers among the followers of the Republican party leaders.
Mark says
Close Flagler Beaches immedietly! Keep spring breakers off our beaches and out of our county!!