Bolingbrook Vaccination Rate Is Slightly Above County Average

BOLINGBROOK, IL — New data from state public health officials shows residents of Bolingbrook are slightly more vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus than the county average.

In Bolingbrook's 60440 ZIP code, 29,377 people, or 56.23 percent, are fully vaccinated as of Friday, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Comparatively, 14,102 people, or 63.52 percent, in the 60490 ZIP code are fully vaccinated.

Of the two ZIP codes combined, 47,338 people have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, according to IDPH data.

Bolingbrook's rates compare to about 52.58 percent, or 363,986, of Will County residents who are fully vaccinated, putting Bolingbrook around the same benchmark. In the neighboring village of Plainfield, two of its three ZIP codes — 60544 and 60585 — have about 61 percent of their populations fully vaccinated, higher than the county average.

As part of Bolingbrook's initiative to vaccinate its residents, the village is hosting an array of pop-up clinics alongside offering an at-home option. To find a pop-up or make an appointment to receive a dose at home, those interested can visit the Vax Up Bolingbrook website.

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.

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.

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

Patch staff contributed.