Today’s quotable
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Kankakee Daily Journal…
As of Monday, [Kankakee County] has given 65,274 doses of the coronavirus vaccine with 31,948 totally vaccinated, which is 29.04 percent of the county population. Herd immunity is reached at 70 percent.
Board member John Fetherling asked [Kankakee County Health Department administrator John Bevis] what the goal is and can the county get to 40 percent or higher on vaccinations.
“What’s the best way to do this to get up to around 40?” Fetherling said.
“Even the most populous counties right now that have had the best success rates of getting people vaccinated, I don’t think have hit 40 [percent] yet,” Bevis said. “So once we hit 30, now at least, I’m going to be comfortable that we’re in the talking distance because just a couple of months ago, we were one of the last ones from the bottom of the state, and a number of counties hit 30, 35, just right off the bat.
Um, Illinois has fully vaccinated 40.37 percent of its total population. That’s not mentioned in the story.
- Cubs in '16 - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 3:43 pm:
“Even the most populous counties right now that have had the best success rates of getting people vaccinated, I don’t think have hit 40 [percent] yet,” Bevis said.
What a butthead.
- Lefty Lefty - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 3:55 pm:
DuPage 47.82%
Cook 43.13%
other collar counties above 38%
Very weak for a health department director.
- Dotnonymous - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 3:59 pm:
One would think…yeah…but apparently hunuh.
How much does this guy get paid?…and for what…again?
- Stu - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 3:59 pm:
Not sure which is worse, Bevis saying it, or the reporter not checking facts.
- Ugh - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 4:00 pm:
80% of Effingham County seniors have had one dose! Obviously that’s apples to oranges comparison but still makes Kankakee County look really bad.
- Jibba - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 4:06 pm:
Sounds like somebody who doesn’t really care what the percentage is.
- DirtLawyer - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 4:20 pm:
Given the lack of enforcement of the executive orders by the health department from the get go, together with generally lackadaisical attitudes about COVID throughout Kankakee County despite the number of cases, this is hardly surprising.
- MyTwoCents - Wednesday, May 26, 21 @ 5:19 pm:
It literally took less than 5 minutes for me to go the IDPH website, find out that the Statewide percentage is 40.4%, DuPage, Cook, Sangamon, Champaign, Monroe counties & Chicago are all over 40%, Kankakee is ranked 65th out of 103 (since Cook & Chicago are separated) and is being beat by counties like Menard, DeWitt, Ford or Calhoun. It would be a really easy article for the Kankakee Daily Journal to expose the incompetence of the health department director.