The current COVID-19 wave is now the second-largest in Elkhart County since the beginning of the pandemic.
Data released on Wednesday showed that the county’s seven-day average reached 81 infections per day on Tuesday, surpassing the June 2020 peak of the first big wave in the county, which reached a high of 78 cases per day. However, the current wave is still far from the all-time high seven-day average of 327 cases per day, which was reached on Nov. 17.
The county also received an orange score for the first time in many weeks on Wednesday, indicating that the local area has about caught up to most of the state as the highly transmissible Delta variant has spread and now accounts for nearly 100 percent of infections.
Despite the uptick in local cases, which began after infections reached a low seven-day average of four per day on July 6, there has not been a significant increase in COVID-19 deaths.
Elkhart County remains behind the state as a whole in the vaccination effort – 35.9 percent of county residents are fully vaccinated, and that number grows by about 0.05 percentage points per day, meaning it will be years before the county reaches 100 percent, or even 70 percent, at this rate. The state as a whole is at 45.8 percent.
Read the rest of the article from Rasmus S. Jorgensen in Elkhart Truth here, but note that there is a paywall and a subscription is required.
