Vaccinations and Booster Shots Keep Climbing

Evansville IN

19 January, 2022

2:35 PM

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By John Gibson, WNIN January 19, 2022 Vanderburgh County is approaching 100,000 full vaccinations against COVID-19. The Indiana Department of Health recorded more than 200 new vaccinations in the county on its Monday dashboard. The number has continued to rise slowly but steadily in recent months and stands at 99, 595. Booster shots have been rising more dramatically, with more than 1,000 added in Vanderburgh County on Monday. The county's total of boosted residents has topped 45,500. Across Indiana, more than 3.3 million Hoosiers are fully vaccinated with nearly 1.6 million boosted against COVID-19. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.