Vaccinations, Boosters Continue to Climb in Vanderburgh County

Evansville IN

02 February, 2022

11:14 AM

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By John Gibson, WNIN February 2, 2022 Vaccinations and booster shots against COVID-19 continue to rise in Vanderburgh County. The Indiana Department of Health counted 134 more vaccinations in the county on its Monday dashboard. Vanderburgh's number of vaccinated residents topped 100,200 The agency also tallied nearly 250 more booster shots, raising the local total above 47,000. The numbers were reported amid increasing calls for changing the qualification for being fully vaccinated. Currently, health officials consider a person vaccinated if they've had both shots of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or the single shot from Johnson and Johnson. But some are calling for booster shots to be required before considering a person fully vaccinated. 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.