A Slight Uptick

The number of people in Ohio, age 16 and older, who received their initial COVID-19 vaccine…jumped 33% in the week after the state announced its million-dollar incentive lottery, though an analysis shows vaccination rates lag well behind what they were in March and most of April. In the week after the May 12 announcement about the lottery, 119,394 people received either the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine or their first part of the two-dose Pfizer or Moderna shots, that’s according to Ohio Department of Health data. That’s an increase of nearly 30,000 from the 89,464 people in the same age group who received a first shot during the seven-day period, from May 6 to May 12. Officials are pleased…but admit there is a long way to go to reach herd immunity.