Clastsop County Vaccine Update

With 18 new cases a day, some of the covid-19 spread we’re now seeing in Clatsop County is coming from people who have been vaccinated. KMUN’s Jacob Lewin spoke with County Public Health Director Margo Lalich and has this report: While the large majority of new covid cases involve the unvaccinated, locally about 15-percent of those cases are amongst the vaccinated. 18% of state covid deaths last month—ten of them—were among the vaccinated. It seems that a spell of lower covid numbers, plus being tired of wearing masks and keeping distance and a belief that being vaccinated gives even greater...