COVID Vaccine in the U.S.
Location New York
California Texas
Florida Pennsylvania
South Dakota Vermont Alaska
North Dakota Wyoming
209 MILLION
64% Have at least taken 1 dose
Doses Given
25M 49.1M 31.1M
25.8M 15.7M
179 MILLION
54% Are fully vaccinated
Five most-vaccinated states Fully
Vaccinated 12M
22.6M 14.2M 11.8M 7.2M
Five least-vaccinated states 924K 907K 761K 718K 499K
444K 428K 353K 326K 231K
% of
population 61.7% 57.1%
49.0% 55.2% 56.2%
50.2% 68.6% 48.3% 42.7% 39.9%
the vaccine, three of four may question that. Is that vaccine hesitancy or government hesitancy? Another group that is notably vaccine hesitant is Blacks. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the white vac- cination rate is 1.3 times higher than for Blacks. This is not education level-related but instead may be
a mistrust of “government benevolence,” a remnant of the Tuskegee syphilis studies where the U.S. government with- held disease treatment in Blacks as an experiment to learn the natural history of syphilis. Blacks also voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden and the Democrats. In exchange, their neighborhoods and businesses were destroyed by Democrat-backed BLM riots and police defunding. Their distrust of government may be well-justified. To be clear, this article is not medical advice for or against
the vaccine. Rather than painting with a broad brush and making vac-
cine hesitancy a political issue, the media should explore who is actually hesitant and why. Name-calling, condescension, and disparaging criticism will not win converts who have legitimate concerns. This is especially relevant after flip-flopping narratives, as
in one month being told if you get vaccinated you no longer need to wear a mask, then the next month being told to mask up, even if outside and even if you are vaccinated. Regardless of motivations, disparate groups of Americans, independent of political affiliation, are vaccine-hesitant, con- trary to the media narrative. It’s a public health disservice for the media to politicize everything, including the COVID-19 vaccines.
Brian C. Joondeph is a Colorado-based physician and writer. This article first appeared in the online daily, American Thinker.
Sweden Shrugs Off Pandemic
BY MARISA HERMAN S
weden’s decision to keep restaurants and bars open, send children to school in person, and make masks mostly optional throughout the coro-
navirus pandemic appears to have paid off. The country managed to stave off high death tolls
and crippling its economy. While Sweden has recorded more COVID-19 cases
per capita than most countries, its death toll is far lower than other European countries that implemented strict lockdowns like Britain, Italy, and France. Since the start of the pandemic, coronavirus trackers
indicate that about 11 out of every 100 people in Sweden contracted COVID-19, which is higher than 9.4 out of every 100 in Britain and 7.4 per 100 in Italy. But Sweden logged fewer deaths per million people
than Italy, Britain, France, and Spain, all of which implemented lockdowns and mask mandates. However, when compared to its Nordic neighbors Denmark, Finland, and Norway, the death toll is much higher in Sweden. Anders Tegnell, the state epidemiologist responsi-
ble for Sweden’s coronavirus response, compared lock- downs to “using a hammer to kill a fly” in a September interview with the Financial Times. He attributes the low death rate this summer to Swe-
den’s decision to vaccinate its older and more vulnerable population first.
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