Waterloo Region COVID-19 vaccination rate drops as Public Health tinkers with numbers
Global News
As was expected, the percentage numbers of people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 in the area took a major turn on Friday when Waterloo Region updated its dashboard.
As was expected, the percentage numbers of people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 in the area took a major turn on Friday when Waterloo Region updated its dashboard.
The new report indicates that 74.6 per cent of area residents are vaccinated, down about two per cent from Thursday.
That number should start to rebound quickly now that those aged five to 11 are eligible to be vaccinated.
Waterloo Public Health has changed the population number it is using to create these percentages, with that total rising from 588,878 to 605,232. The latter number is the most recent provided by Statistics Canada for people living in the area.
The other major changes that were implemented saw the statistics broken down by year of birth rather than age, as well as including students from outside the region.
This caused all of the older age groups to climb drastically as the region now says more than 95 per cent of those over the age of 70 are fully vaccinated, a rise of more than five per cent in each age category.
Those under the age of 40 have all seen drastic drops as well, particularly the 18-to-29 age category which went from above 95 per cent vaccinated to 78.85 per cent vaccinated.
Global News has reached out to Waterloo Public Health for clarification on how the change from age to year of birth would have caused such a drastic shift.
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