Vaccination efforts continue to spread across the United States, as the Delta variant has caused a surge in cases in primarily unvaccinated communities.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, in conservative states, especially in the South, vaccine hesitation continues to be much more common.
Alabama’s vaccination rate is still the lowest in the country because it has been for some time and only about 34% of the vaccines are fully vaccinated. In late July, Alabama saw approximately 400% increase During COVID-19 hospitalization. In recent weeks, Governor Kay Ivey has been one of the prominent Republican legislators who have been more active in advocating vaccination in her state.
“The new COVID cases are because there are no people who are vaccinated,” Ivey said, as her state continues to work hard to deal with the problem of low vaccination rates. “Almost 100% of new hospitalized patients are unvaccinated people. The deaths must have happened to unvaccinated people. These people have chosen a terrible self-injury lifestyle.”
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However, Ivey has stopped Offer rewards Promote vaccination at the state level, As other countries do And as president Joe Biden Encouraged. This allows local governments, schools and institutions to introduce incentives on their own.
“Some people think that the government should make vaccination mandatory, or we should bribe people to take it,” Ivey wrote in the article. Washington post“No matter how many times the media asks me, this will never happen in my state.”
Alabama at the bottom of the vaccination rate chart, in descending order, Louisiana, Arkansas, Wyoming, and Mississippi.These specific states are known for their generally conservative political tendencies. All states except Wyoming are located in the southern United States.
Louisiana and Arkansas are also the only two counties, each of which has the highest level of community transmission. CDC Report.
And according to the national health agency data, The list of states with the most COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents is somewhat consistent with the states with the lowest vaccination rates. In descending order, the five states are Alabama, Missouri, Florida, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
In the comparison of these two sets of data, Florida is a noteworthy outlier. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Florida’s complete vaccination rate is slightly higher than the national average of 50%. Despite this, the state’s higher population puts it in the lead in overall COVID-19 cases, although it is far ahead of other southern states in terms of vaccination. Florida has more than 85,000 new cases in the past week, far more than any other state.
