SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said Tuesday that 37.6 percent of adults in the county have now received at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine.
He said in a tweet that 29 percent of Onondaga County’s total population has received one or more dose. That surpasses the New York state average of about 23 percent.
A total of 137,365 people in the county had received a minimum of one injection, as of 11 a.m. on Tuesday morning, according to the New York State Department of Health’s COVID-19 vaccine tracker. And 80,533 people had completed a vaccine series.
Onondaga County’s COVID-19 numbers have been steadily improving since early January as vaccinations start to reach critical mass and the spread of the virus slows.
The county’s number of active positive cases fell to 270 as of Tuesday, down 96 percent from the peak of more than 6,000 about 11 weeks ago. The number of county residents hospitalized with COVID-19 has plunged to 37 as of Tuesday, down 89 percent from the high of 336 on Dec. 28. You have to go back to Nov. 3 to find fewer COVID patients in county hospitals than today.