Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 *cases* per capita: 1. Chattahoochee County, GA 2. Crowley County, CO 3. Bent County, CO 4. Dewey County, SD 5. Lincoln County, AR 6. Lake County, TN 7. Norton County, KS 8. Bon Homme County, SD 9. Trousdale County, TN 10. Buffalo County, SD
Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 *deaths* per capita: 1. Foard County, TX 2. Galax, VA 3. Jerauld County, SD 4. Emporia, VA 5. Hancock County, GA 6. Gove County, KS 7. Gregory County, SD 8. Iron County, WI 9. Dickey County, ND 10. McMullen County, TX
Both cumulative cases and deaths per capita continue to run higher in the red counties. This has been remarkably stable since around the beginning of 2021.
Out of over 3,100 counties nationally, there are just 46 without any reported cases of #COVID19 to date. Population: 178,000 total.
There are just 4 counties nationally w/out any reported COVID deaths. Population: 12,272.
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UPDATE: Not related (beyond the fact that abortion/ reproductive healthcare is always connected to the ACA on some level), but there's already another major SCOTUS news development this morning:
Welp. I figured as much but the visual is pretty striking regardless...
RE NEW HAMPSHIRE: Something’s clearly not right with NH...several folks from there have stated that their data is messed up; they're doing very well but not THAT great.
I mean I find it difficult to believe that they jumped this much in the past day or two...
I'm less concerned by the fact that 44% of Republicans say they refuse to #GetVaccinated than I am by the *consistency* of that percent over time. If it was gradually dropping that would be more encouraging, but it's almost a straight line since December.
I know this isn’t an exact overlap, but if you assume all 44% are those who voted for Trump last year, that’s around 33 million people or 10% of the total U.S. population.
Add the ~50M 11 & younger kids who can’t get vaccinated, the ~10M immunocompromised who can’t, the 4% of Dems & ? Indys who won’t and that’s probably around 30%. Yikes.
You go to a grocery store. You're vaccinated, so you don't wear a mask. How the hell is anyone else supposed to know whether you aren't wearing a mask because you're vaccinated, or you aren't wearing one because you're an asshole?
I'm not just talking about getting dirty looks from other customers, I mean in terms of actual *store policy*...how are they supposed to enforce it without an official "vaccine passport" etc?
This is good to hear, but it's going to make the "asshole who refuses to follow store policy" problem 100x worse. nytimes.com/2021/05/13/hea…