Nearly 69% Of Glencoe, Winnetka Residents Vaccinated Against COVID-19: IDPH

WINNETKA, IL — New data from state public health officials shows Winnetka and Glencoe residents are vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus at significantly higher rates than state and county averages.

There are 13,233 fully vaccinated people — 68 percent of the population — in the 60093 ZIP code, which includes Winnetka and Northfield.

In Glencoe's 60022 ZIP code, 5,861 people, or 69 percent of residents, are fully vaccinated as of Tuesday, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. About 74 percent of residents of both towns had received at least a first dose of one of the two-dose coronavirus vaccines.

The rate of inoculation in all three villages is higher than the suburban Cook County average of 58 percent or Chicago's 54 percent vaccination rate. But both ZIP codes slightly trail most neighboring communities.

Glenview and Kenilworth's ZIP codes have lower vaccination rates than Winnetka and Glencoe, while Highland Park, Northbrook and Wilmette all have higher vaccination rates — as do Evanston and Skokie.

As of Tuesday, the vaccination rate in Wilmette was the highest of any lakefront North Shore communities, barely edging out Highland Park and North Evanston's ZIP codes, according to the IDPH data.

More than 200 of the state's nearly 1,400 postal codes, mostly in rural areas, had less than 30 percent of their populations vaccinated, according to IDPH. Meanwhile, 10 sparsely populated ZIP codes have 100 percent of their populations vaccinated.

Three with populations of 10,000 or more — two in Chicago's near North Side and one in Naperville — have more than 75 percent of their residents vaccinated, according to state data.

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Federal public health officials have announced plans to offer booster shots to all adults who have received a vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna starting Sept. 20.

Health regulators have already approved boosters for certain immunocompromised people in an effort to offset the potential that the immunity the vaccine provides against coronavirus infections could wane after six to eight months.

Related: 3rd COVID-19 Shot Available To Some Illinoisans: Where To Get It

But even as the government plans to begin to offer third jabs, there are still millions of adults who have not received a first dose.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 7.57 million adult Illinois residents, or nearly 77 percent of the population aged 18 or over, have received at least one dose. More than 60 percent of adults are fully vaccinated.

That means about 5.25 million Illinois residents have not yet received a dose of vaccine.

The daily average number of doses administered in the state stood at about 40,000 Wednesday. The seven-day rolling average reached a peak of more than 130,000 in mid-April before falling below 15,000 a day in the second week of July.

While there is no data available about the number of vaccinated people who test positive for the coronavirus in Illinois, also known as breakthrough infections, there were 1,056 fully vaccinated people hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Wednesday, according to state health data.

Nearly 97 percent of the more than 7,000 people who have died from COVID-19 complications in Illinois since January have been unvaccinated, according to the state data, with just 223 deaths among those who have been fully vaccinated.

According to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, four Glencoe residents, five Winnetka residents and six Northfield residents have died of COVID-related causes since the start of the pandemic, the most recent of which was July 7.