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20 Sep, 7 tweets, 3 min read

The latest wave of COVID-19 has brought hospitals back to the brink and destroyed hopes of a return to normalcy anytime soon.

But the damage from the virus has been far from homogenous because of geographic differences in vaccination rates.

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To help understand how those differences have played out, The Times looked at the five states with the lowest rates of full vaccination and compared them with the five states with the highest rates.

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Mississippi, West Virginia, Idaho, Alabama & Wyoming — all red states — each have a vaccination rate of about 40%.

That figure ranges from 67% to 69% in the blue states of Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut & Vermont — in that order.

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Those 5 states suffered much more than the 5 red states in 2020, primarily because New England was an early epicenter of the pandemic.

That gap soon began to narrow. The reasons almost certainly have more to do with policy & politics than with vaccines.

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Since the end of April, the death rate in the red states rose to more than triple the death rate in the blue states.

As a result, the red states have now surpassed the blue states in deaths per 100,000 people over the course of the pandemic.

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The blue states continue to exercise caution, as several have seen increases in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in recent weeks — though on each of those measures they remain in far better shape than the red states.

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@Emily_Baum

Vaccination campaigns in the five red states faltered as politicians mostly played to their voters.

Read more from @Emily_Baum at latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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