Weekly Update: U.S. #COVID19 vaccination levels by COUNTY & Partisan Lean

COVID-19 Vaccine

Methodology reminders:

  • I go by FULLY vaccinated residents only (defined as 2 doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine).
  • I base my percentages on the total population, as opposed to adults only or those over 11 years old.
  • The 5 major U.S. territories don't vote for President in the general election, preventing me from displaying them in the main graph, but I have them listed down the right side.

With all this in mind, here's what things looked like as of October 17, 2021:

It's also important to note that after both the R2 (correlation) and slope formulas briefly plateaued and even started to drop slightly for the first time over the past few weeks...both seem to have started to increase again. Huh.

It'll be interesting to see what happens about a month after the FDA gives final approval to the Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds.

Here's what the data above looks like in bar graph format, broken out in rough deciles (tenths of the total population, or around 33.1 million people apiece). The vaccination rate in the bluest tenth of the nation is running around 1.6x higher than the reddest tenth:

Other things especially worth noting:

  • Kalawao County, HI (pop. 82) is still the only one which is 100% vaccinated.
  • There's four other counties which are over 90% fully vaccinated: Dukes and Nantucket, Massachusetts (pop. 20,600 & 14,255 respectively), Hudspeth County, Texas (pop. 2,912) and Bristol Bay, Alaska (pop. 844)
  • The only other counties which have fully vaccinated at least 80% of their total populations are:
    • Santa Cruz County, AZ (pop. 47,669)
    • Presidio County, TX (pop. 6,131)
    • San Juan County, CO (pop. 705)
    • West Feliciana Parish, LA (pop. 15,310)
    • Teton County, WY (pop. 23,331)
  • At the opposite end, there's 3 counties which have vaccinated less than 15% of their total populations:
    • Slope County, ND (pop. 706)
    • McPherson County, SD (pop. 2,411)
    • Miller County, AR (pop. 42,600)
  • Of counties with more than 100,000 residents, the top-vaxxed are Marin County, CA (76.5% vaxxed); Sumter County, FL (76.1%); and Montgomery County, MD (75.8% vaxxed).

Ironically, prior to the COVID pandemic, ultra-liberal Marin County (Trump only received 16% of the vote here) happened to be one of the birthplaces of the recent "anti-vaxx movement" resurgence, while deep red Sumter County (Trump received 68% of the vote) happens to be home to "The Villages", the massive retirement community where Trump held rallies last summer.

  • Of counties with more than 100,000 residents, the least-vaxxed are Shelby and Limestone Counties, AL, both of which have only vaccinated around 31% of their total populations.
  • There are 49 counties with more than 1 million residents. Of those, the highest-vaxxed is Montgomery County, MD (75.8% vaxxed) while the lowest-vaxxed is Wayne County, MI (home of Detroit), which has only vaccinated 46.9% of its population.

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