Vaccinations: Top 16 states blue, Bottom 15 red (except GA)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state
(On link, scroll down for chart and more stats)

Fully vaccinated:

Top ( starting with best)
Maine - #1 in U.S.
50.6%
Conn.
49.8%
Vt.
49%
Mass.
48.4%
R.I.
48.4%
N.J.
45.6%
Hawaii
45.2%
N.M.
45.2%
Md.
44.2%
N.Y.
43.8%
Minn.
42.9%
Colo.
42.3%
Wis.
42.3%
D.C.
42.1%
Wash.
41.8%
VA
41.7%

Bottom (starting with worst):

Miss.
26.4%
Ala.
28.2%
Ark.
29.7%
La.
30%
Ga.
30%
Tenn.
30.3%
Utah
30.6%
Wyo.
30.8%
Idaho
31.3%
S.C.
32.2%
Okla.
32.7%
Mo.
33%
W.Va.
33.1%
Texas
33.3%
Ind.
33.3%

[dalton99a]

1. The Pro-Life Party

[Hortensis]

16. At any time @10% of reproductive age females are pregnant.

600-900K people dead in this country alone does not count the fetuses and babies who died with their mothers.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. Yep, and the differences keep growing.

I keep seeing red states with higher percentages of Native Americans, who were the fastest to get vaccinated than any other ethnicity in this country, continuing to drop down the vaccination percentage lists too. South Dakota, for example.

[Backseat Driver]

6. What does NPR have against Ohio?

Seems like it should have been in that top list of most vaccinated despite its "red" status politically, led by Gov DeWine, et al those GOP awful congress critters of tenure spouting GQP election and vaccine CTs. CoVidActNow claims +1 shot equals at 43.5% as of 5/20/21...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. Ohio is almost always near the middle of those lists...

... that I've seen.

Just about any listing of states in regard to anything seems to be that way.

There were reports that the Vaxamillion lottery caused a recent increase of vaccination rates here, so that's good, but I personally suspect it will prove to be very temporary.

[Ms. Toad]

22. We're at 38.13% completely vaccinated.

Started = 43.5%

[GulfCoast66]

34. I don't see how you figure that.

You guys are not among the worst 10. But certainly not the top ten.

[bottomofthehill]

3. Top 5 are New England states

Only New Hampshire is missing, old school Yankee sensibility.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. I've seen some lists with New Hampshire near the top.

That state is also the ONLY one that's not keeping track of the Covid vaccinations at the state level. So are they being recorded at the Federal level instead? (I don't know.)

I saw it mentioned in a USA Today article about possible vaccine passports, and how state health agencies could provide the verification (except in NH) if it was done.

[bottomofthehill]

11. Looks like a summer vacation at home is in order

Be it the Cape, York Beach, the big lake, Sacco river, Newport ( although I clearly don’t have the money for that) Mystic or Nyantic, a New England vaca may be the ticket to cure the Covid blues.

Still do mostly outdoor activities, but at least start the social interaction with people on a face to face ( still masked up) level.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. Sounds great!

I've never visited the Northeastern states! It's weird because I've at least passed through almost every other state otherwise, not including Alaska or Hawaii.

I'd like to visit that area someday. The closest for me was NJ.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Went last summer to beach in Niantic. It was like night and day

Driving from TX. So refreshing! Everyone and I mean everyone in CT had masks on. They practiced social distancing even walking. Many restaurants had set up makeshift outdoor dining. They all just did it and went about their lives. No complaints.

Of course many lives were lost at the start. Dipshit didn't warn anyone.

But my theory is that there are so many rules up there, typically, it was easy to just go along with covid rules.

Going to Groton next month. Made Rez last fall. If you go, hurry. Heard not much left.

[bottomofthehill]

25. Thanks for the heads up.

Will start the search tonite

[Blue_Adept]

35. We did the same through MA and RI as well, large and small cities alike

We got ravaged hard early on from the pandemic due to the Biogen outbreak and we took it seriously because small state and lots of deaths means you knew someone who died more than likely.

[underpants]

4. I don't see ARIZONA.

I guess that’s still being audited

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Haha - toward worst, stopped at AZ cuz blue

[Haggard Celine]

5. We don't need no stinking vaccines in the red states.

If Covid kills us, we'll get to go meet Jesus that much sooner. Hallelujah!

[Captain Zero]

8. Would be interesting. Which voting machines are used

in those states?

[spinbaby]

9. West Virginia did great early on

If I remember correctly, back in February, West Virginia had gotten off to a flying start and was ahead of most other states. I wonder what happened.

Anyone want to place bets on where we’ll see the first major outbreak among the unvaccinated and unmasked? I’m betting on a mega church in Texas.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. WV didn't have age restrictions early-on.

So they got several eager participants in younger age groups who weren't even qualified yet in most states.

I figured they'd fall down the vaccination lists later. That state is chock-full of Trump supporters.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

13. I'm confused

I thought there were several states that had hit 70%? What are the metrics being used?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. A lot of it depends on...

... whether the percentages are for the entire population or just the people aged 18+.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

15. Yeah, I think this is total population

And that will definitely be lower since kids under 12 can't get vaccinated.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. Here's recent data from the CDC...

... for the entire country. People aged 65+ are mostly vaccinated so far, and obviously the higher vaccination states would be even better in general.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations

% of Population ≥ 18 Years of Age
60.5%, one dose
48.4%, fully vaccinated

% of Population ≥ 65 Years of Age
84.9%, one dose
73.2%, fully vaccinated

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Thanks BD. I have heard the 75% number used for achieving

herd immunity. Do you think that's total pop?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. It's probably a decent estimate based on current transmission...

... rates, but every new vaccination will help everyone anyway. If it could reach nearly 100% eventually, which I know is a pipe dream, I'd be even happier!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

29. Israel's new cases and deaths are very low now...

... but not yet zero.

Keeping an eye on them might give us a better grasp of "herd immunity" levels.

They're doing the best with vaccinations, using mostly the very effective mRNA vaccines like us and not the less effective traditional vaccines that use inactive viruses like in the country of Seychelles.

Yet even Israel hasn't reached 70% for single doses yet.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. Wow on Russia. Suspicious? Thanks for chart. It's so

interesting. And perhaps variants and mutations not as bad as we thought? Should have exploded by now? Or am I naive?

Do you think we've weathered the worst?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

32. Don't know, but so far the mRNA vaccines...

... have been incredible with their effectiveness.

Maybe a variant of the coronavirus spike proteins will come along later that makes the vaccines far less efficient, but those spike proteins also act like keys to enter the sanctum of our cells. So perhaps many such mutations would render a virus useless at using the resources within our cells to replicate in the first place.

I'd prefer to have many more people vaccinated to reduce the probability of a more dangerous variant, which could happen given enough time of the virus' survival.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. Thanks. For some of us, we need trust that we can " let go" Come

back to a new way of life at least. Almost getting like 9-11 - hard to remember what life was like before.

[Elessar Zappa]

19. Could be that

you’re thinking of people who got one vaccination so far. I do know 60% of adults in the US have received at least one shot.

[Gregory Peccary]

18. Regarding the headline.....

I'm still not ready to officially declare Georgia a non-red state.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. Ya you're probably right :(. Crazy that the Rep Govs don't realize

How a vaccinated population helps their state.

[Bleacher Creature]

20. Georgia is red for these purposes.

Right wing governor and right wing legislature. We did great at the federal level in Georgia, but the state is still under total Republican control.

[Tommy Carcetti]

30. Woo-hoo!

We're mediocre, Florida! Congratulations and high-fives abound!

We're not awful! We're not terrible! We're thoroughly Dyatlov!

Let the Florida Scrub Jay sing a sweet song of victory!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. Great question. Read on NPR WV had highest vaccination rate in world

Like what heading task force said at the time

"Not bad for a bunch of hillbillies," Hoyer says

[Larissa]

40. NY Daily News: States with low/highest vaccination rates

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-states-lowest-highest-vaccination-rates-iq-score-covid-20210524-ubkwdphohrabbi77vurazmwehe-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Don%27t%20Miss&utm_content=5631621893517#nws=true