I’m in Virginia.
County: 42.7 % fully vaccinated.
I’m disappointed that it is not higher, this is a wealthy county and vaccines are widely available. OTOH people are still masking quite a bit.
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Why are you surprised?
My county in NC, Orange County, shows 67% of 12 and over fully vaxed, 68% of 18 and over fully vaxed and 92% of 65 and over fully vaxed.
The state as a whole has 53% of adults (18 & up) vaxed and 80% of 65 & up vaxed.
Be suspicious of erroneous data entry here.
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Are you using the cdc data? Try the vdh website because I think you are closer to 55% total population and 65-70% of adults (fully vaccinated)
For some reason vdh isn’t playing nicely with the cdc.
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Norfolk County, MA one dose: 72%, fully vaxxed: 63%.
NYT county based Covid vaccination map. It may allow you to check the neighboring counties much faster.
It’s updated on daily bases minus weekends. Also note the state info, such as “7% didn’t specify the person’s home county.”
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Dallas County, TX: one dose:49% fully vaccinated: 42%;
Totally agree that most relevant is 12+ rate. Here it’s 59% fully vaxxed.
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My rural county 2 hours north of Seattle:
At least one dose: 59%
Fully vaccinated: 50.2%
Some towns are much more vaccinated than others.
The 12+ and 18+ vaccination rates are really promising.
12+ fully vaccinated: 57.6%
At least one dose: 67.7%
18+ fully vaccinated: 59.2%
At least one dose: 69.2%
@PacNW, I’m thrilled to see your county’s vaccination rates!
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"Maine has one of the highest vaccination rates in the U.S. More than two-thirds of people age 12 and older are fully vaccinated.
Data from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services show that the state’s highest vaccination rate is in Cumberland County, which is the state’s most populated as home to Portland. The rate there is about 80%.
The county with the lowest rate of eligible people fully vaccinated is Somerset, a mostly rural area where the rate is about 53%. That’s still a higher number than many states."
Our primary residence is in Cumberland County. Somerset County is where our cabin is, in the mountains. There aren’t many people there.
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MN- the state is over 70% of adults vaccinated, and our county hit 70% in early June. Can’t find updated numbers atm. For 16+ it’s in the mid-60 percent range. I didn’t see numbers for 12+.
Chester County PA
%Vaccinated
1+ DOSE
74.76%
FULLY VACCINATED
46.62%
Surprised there is such a disparity between first and second doses. Appointments are plentiful.
I suspect VA isn’t the only state with such discrepancies.
My state’s numbers hide the fact that there are areas in the state with much lower vax rates (I live in one such area, and some of the surrounding areas are exceptionally low).
It’s hard to tie the numbers sometimes. My own town publishes data for several age groups and two are over 100%. They say the population data is a couple years old, and people move in and out, and age into different groups so the numbers aren’t accurate but they are the best they have. Obviously the rate is very high but they can’t say exactly what it is.
This is a concern - are people for some reason not getting the 2nd dose? Relying on one dose to carry them through?
I’m not sure. The roll out in our county was very poor early on. People wanted to get vaccinated but appointments were difficult to obtain (like many places) so people often traveled outside the county to get vaccinated (everyone I know got vaccinated outside of our county). I’m wondering how the percentages are calculated because, for example, I live in Chester County, but I was vaccinated in a different county. Am I counted where I live or where I was vaccinated? That could be skewing the numbers and many more are actually fully vaccinated?
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Or perhaps there are lots of people getting a late start on vaccination (for whatever reason)?
Could be. Not much vaccine reluctance but availability was very poor for months.
Anecdotally, I can say yes…there are people who are not returning for a second dose (my next door neighbor, for example). In her case, she “can’t afford to not feel well for few days if the second shot knocks me out” (this is her busy season at work) - yes, I have tried to reason with her that if that is her rationale, how does she feel about potentially feeling sick for weeks if she catches covid…to no avail. I also think the earlier data about the efficacy of just one shot (near 80%, IIRC) was more widely known than what is being reported about the efficacy of one shot against the Delta variant. In my opinion, the news cycle seems to be several paces behind what is actually happening/about to happen.
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I think it’s likely a big hot mess with a little of bit of everything thrown in there. I know in VA that was an issue in the beginning. They were tallying where the shots were given, not where the people lived. At some point VDH said they fixed the numbers after a small city (which is like treated like county in other states) complained. Initial numbers showed almost nobody in their city was vaccinated compared to surrounding areas. My area also has the complication that we are on a state line. Some people got theirs in NC, but there is no way VA would get any record of that. (That was recently mentioned in our news.)
And VA is continually adjusting the case/hospitalization/death numbers as well. In my area you can have a city zip code, but live in the county. Every so often, they go back and adjust. One day, our daily new case number was -110! Deaths also get deducted after the death certificates are reviewed by the state if they believe covid was not the true cause of death.
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