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📣📣 It's been about 6 weeks *and* I've updated everything with the official 2020 Census data, so it's time once again to look at the county-level vaccination rates for each individual state!

First up...Alabama:
ALASKA is, as always, kind of all over the place with no discernible pattern to speak of:
ARIZONA. I've actually decided to start scrapping the "herd immunity threshold" line since a) we don't know how high it actually is and b) it clutters up the graphs. Let's just say every county SHOULD be as close to the top as possible.
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The good news is that many of the worst-hit states for the US pandemic have started their descent.
Nebraska, New Mexico still on a sharp ascent
South Dakota peaked with the highest death rate per capita for any place in the global pandemic
Nice that the @CDCgov is discouraging travel at Thanksgiving. Where were they when 450,000 people were assembling for the #SturgisRally?
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Sturgis was both predicted and predictable: Here's what I said one month ago (Aug 1) on Day 1 of #sturgis2020 #Sturgis #SturgisMotorcycleRally #SturgisRally
On either this or another segment, I remember saying (sarcastically) “What? Bring 250,000 bikers from parts of the nation where #COVID19 is raging, and have them pile into bars, with no masks out of defiance? What could go wrong?”
Aug 7 on Day 1
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The sheer volume of reporters/newspapers/tv stations that have unquestioningly accepted the results of the #SturgisRally study is... well... disappointing

There are some assumptions in it that could very well be flawed. ($46K per case for example)

I looked at CO data...
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Study specifically references Jefferson, Weld, and Adams counties where 1.) lots of residents went to Sturgis and 2.)saw a notable increase in COVID cases.

So, I looked at each county's data...

Adams, for example, experienced NO marked increase.

tchd.org/823/Case-Updat…
Jefferson County did see a small bump,... but it didn't sustain itself

jeffco.us/4007/COVID-19-…
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(1) Bikers descend on Sturgis rally with few signs of #COVID19 pandemic:

"The coronavirus may be changing the world, but there aren't many signs of the pandemic at the massive annual motorcycle rally being held this week at in Sturgis, SD."

kutv.com/news/coronavir…
(2) #Sturgis2020 is packed, with anti-mask sentiment dominating the event.

(3) The Hotel Sturgis is providing a live feed of #Sturgis2020:

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