The COVID-19 vaccine is proving to be effective in Pulaski County. Of the roughly 4,100 Pulaski County residents fully vaccinated, fewer than five of them subsequently tested positive, according to Nathan Origer with the county’s incident management team.
“In all of those three or four cases, it’s been situations where it’s been somebody over the age of 60 with immune system compromise problems,” Origer told the county commissioners Monday. “So most people in the county, we haven’t had otherwise healthy people get the vaccine and then contract it anyway.”
Origer said all of the county’s recent COVID-19 cases were individuals who were either too young to get the vaccine or otherwise chose not to get it.
He said Pulaski Memorial Hospital plans to shift vaccinations to individual doctor’s offices by the end of the month, and the county health department hopes to get all eligible school-age children vaccinated by the start of the school year. Meanwhile, the OptumServe COVID-19 testing site at the Winamac Fire Station is set to wrap up July 1.
