COURT HOUSE – Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and COVID Act Now recently downgraded the risk of contracting Covid in Cape May County. Both list the community level of the virus as low.
The CDC calculates the positivity percentage for Covid in the county at 2.96%, well below the 5.0 threshold that was so frequently the almost unattainable goal during the height of the epidemic. With an infection rate below 1.0 at .85, the county is among the lowest such rate in the state.
Vaccination percentages are also high, with almost 90% of the population over 18 years of age listed as completed the primary series of the vaccine. For those over 65, that percentage climbs to 95%.
In terms of the current updated bivalent booster shot, CDC data indicates that county residents have shied away, with only 21% of the population over 18 and 41% of those over 65 showing they have received the shot.
A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) says that about 50% of the public say they would likely get an annual Covid shot offered like a flu shot.
