Thread by @charles_gaba

📣 UPDATED: How much difference does Population Density and Urban/Rural status make re. Americans getting vaccinated?

SPOILER: Hardly any at all, believe it or not.
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In late July I took a look at how U.S. vaccination rates were doing by county based on both *population density* as well as the USDA Economic Research Service's Rural-Urban Continuum Code.

Today I re-ran both using the latest vaxx data *and* official 2020 Census data. 2/

Here's what it looks like via population density. While the vaxx rate does climb *slightly* as density increases, it's a surprisingly weak correlation. In fact, it's far weaker than it looks here because I had to use a LOGARITHMIC scale to fit every county. 3/

OK, but what about urban/rural status? Well, the USDA uses a 9-point scale for categorizing counties ranging from "Metro 1M+" (1) all the way down to "Nonmetro <2,500" (9). Here's what that looks like:

Again, the vaccination rate is *slightly* higher in the big urban centers than the smaller, rural counties nationally...but it's pretty weak tea.

I was honestly surprised by this, but...there it is.

Anyway, #GetVaxxed.