A health care worker holds a vial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a distribution event at Tucson Medical Center on Jan. 15, 2021.
The state Department of Health Services announced Wednesday that 518,000 people have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Of the vaccines given in Arizona 79,000 are second doses, which is equal to 1.09% of the state’s population.
Arizona’s rate of second vaccinations is on par with the national number of second doses with is 1.05% according to the CDC.
Scientists say 65-70% of the population must receive both doses of the vaccine before herd immunity is reached.
In Pima County, 86,000 vaccinations have been given, with 15,000 or 1.49%, of those were second doses.
In Cochise County, 8,590 doses have been given, of that 736 or .58% are second doses.
The state-run vaccine site at State Farm Stadium in Glendale has given out as many vaccines as Pima County, but has yet to give any second doses, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
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